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How many copies did ASTRA sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 223–363
$613–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut
from 9 reviews (9 user reviews)
Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 175k–293k
best case 918k (Night in the Woods)
Games like ASTRA

A typical game among these

≈ 175k–293k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 2D Platformer (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: Night in the Woods at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 766 reviews in their first month; the range was 69 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 2D Platformer (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Dark Humor, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 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 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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