How much revenue did FTL: Faster Than Light make?

$13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FTL: Faster Than Light sell?

Q: How many copies did FTL: Faster Than Light sell?

5.0M to 8.1M copies, based on its 79k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.0M–8.1M; $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut $24.9M–$56.6M before Steam's cut; from 79k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 FTL: Faster Than Light and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including FTL: Faster Than Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 179k–302k

best case 272k (Quasimorph)

Games like FTL: Faster Than Light

A typical game among these

≈ 179k–302k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.5M 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 7 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Quasimorph at ≈ 207k–336k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (4 of 7) and Open World (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Extraction Shooter + Simulation, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2026, and 1 of the 7 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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