How much revenue did Stellar Sovereigns make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stellar Sovereigns sell?

Q: How many copies did Stellar Sovereigns sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 31 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 871k–18.3M

best case 20.7M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like Stellar Sovereigns

A typical game among these

≈ 871k–18.3M copies

≈ $15.5M–$272.2M after Steam's cut

from ~120k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.8M–25.7M copies, ≈ $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 12k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4X (8 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, and 2 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Sid Meier's Civilization® V 2010	Est. copies ≈ 13.3M–21.7M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.0M–$295.6M after Steam's cut $199.9M–$454.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	211k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based StrategyStrategy
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.7M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $260.5M–$700.4M after Steam's cut $473.7M–$1077.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	380k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
HUMANKIND™ 2021	Est. copies ≈ 715k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut $17.9M–$40.7M before Steam's cut	$49.99	29k reviews Mixed	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Galactic Civilizations III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 508k–825k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	AliensSci-fi
Solar War 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$4.99	36 reviews Positive	StrategyIndie
Lord of Rigel 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $31k–$70k before Steam's cut	$19.99	124 reviews Mixed	MilitarySpace
Galactic Empire 2023	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut	$13.99	20 reviews Mixed	SpaceStrategy
Star Titans : War of the Galaxy 2025	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$14.99	20 reviews Positive	SimulationStrategy