How much revenue did Astride make?

$87k–$233k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astride sell?

Q: How many copies did Astride sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 508 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $87k–$233k after Steam's cut $157k–$358k before Steam's cut; from 508 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–1.1M

best case 9.7M (Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord)

Games like Astride

A typical game among these

≈ 69k–1.1M copies

≈ $618k–$10.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Medieval (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at ≈ 7.4M–12.0M copies, ≈ $101.7M–$273.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 288 to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Medieval (4 of 8) and Agriculture (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Medieval + Open World, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 1 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 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 2022	Est. copies ≈ 7.4M–12.0M 78x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $101.7M–$273.3M after Steam's cut $184.8M–$420.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	298k reviews Very Positive	MedievalStrategy
Farm Together 2018	Est. copies ≈ 672k–1.1M 5.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut $6.7M–$15.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	22k reviews Very Positive	AgricultureMultiplayer
Farmer's Life 2023	Est. copies ≈ 69k–113k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $381k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $692k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	3DFarming
Medieval Dynasty 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut $22.8M–$51.8M before Steam's cut	$34.99	52k reviews Very Positive	CraftingBuilding
Tales Of Glory 2020	Est. copies ≈ 27k–44k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $82k–$220k after Steam's cut $149k–$339k before Steam's cut	$10.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ActionVR
Depraved 2019	Est. copies ≈ 36k–59k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $199k–$534k after Steam's cut $361k–$821k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mixed	City Builder Colony Sim
DEEEER Simulator: Your Average Everyday Deer Game 2021	Est. copies ≈ 120k–194k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $493k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $896k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	5k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationSandbox
The Ranch of Rivershine 2025	Est. copies ≈ 58k–94k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $476k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $866k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SimulationHorses