How much revenue did Delivery in Space make?

$380–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Delivery in Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Delivery in Space sell?

694 to 1k copies, based on its 28 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 694–1k; $380–$1k after Steam's cut $691–$2k before Steam's cut; from 28 reviews (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 Delivery in Space and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Delivery in Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–158k

best case 158k (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)

Games like Delivery in Space

A typical game among these

≈ 122k–158k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.2M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist at ≈ 120k–195k copies, ≈ $827k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 853 reviews in their first month; the range was 224 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Deckbuilding (5 of 8) and Card Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Life Sim, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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