How much revenue did The Star Named EOS make?

$72k–$194k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Star Named EOS sell?

Q: How many copies did The Star Named EOS sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 705 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $72k–$194k after Steam's cut $131k–$298k before Steam's cut; from 705 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–54k

best case 252k (Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery)

Games like The Star Named EOS

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–54k copies

≈ $14k–$142k after Steam's cut

from ~481 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery at ≈ 192k–312k copies, ≈ $685k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 254 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Puzzle, priced around $13.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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