How much revenue did Souls of White Star make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Souls of White Star sell?

Q: How many copies did Souls of White Star sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 167 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut; from 167 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 Souls of White Star and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Souls of White Star's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–243k

best case 427k (Across the Obelisk)

Games like Souls of White Star

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–243k copies

≈ $819k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Across the Obelisk at ≈ 326k–529k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Roguelike Deckbuilder (7 of 8) and Turn-Based (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Fantasy, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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