How much revenue did Sword and Space make?

$0 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword and Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword and Space sell?

0 copies, based on its 0 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Too new to estimate: Games in its genre sell ≈ 139–1.9M That is the genre's figure, not a prediction for this game.; No reviews yet, so there is nothing to estimate from. That is not the same as selling nothing.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Sword and Space and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword and Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139–1.9M

best case 8.6M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Sword and Space

A typical game among these

≈ 139–1.9M copies

≈ $111–$12.8M after Steam's cut

from ~602 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $72.1M–$193.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 8k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Faith (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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