How much revenue did Station to Station make?

$241k–$648k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Station to Station sell?

Q: How many copies did Station to Station sell?

49k to 79k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–79k; $241k–$648k after Steam's cut $438k–$996k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Station to Station and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Station to Station's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 780k–1.5M

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like Station to Station

A typical game among these

≈ 780k–1.5M copies

≈ $4.1M–$10.2M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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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