How much revenue did In Stars And Time make?

$1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did In Stars And Time sell?

Q: How many copies did In Stars And Time sell?

222k to 361k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 222k–361k; $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 In Stars And Time and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including In Stars And Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 468k–611k

best case 1.8M (The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered)

Games like In Stars And Time

A typical game among these

≈ 468k–611k copies

≈ $4.9M–$8.9M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $19.2M–$51.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 621 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Post-apocalyptic + Third-Person Shooter + Action-Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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