How much revenue did Wandering in Space VR make?

$22k–$59k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wandering in Space VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Wandering in Space VR sell?

5k to 9k copies, based on its 214 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–9k; $22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$90k before Steam's cut; from 214 reviews (Mostly 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 Wandering in Space VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wandering in Space VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 981k–2.0M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Wandering in Space VR

A typical game among these

≈ 981k–2.0M copies

≈ $6.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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 VR (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: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M 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 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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