How much revenue did Space Pirates for Life make?

$123–$330 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Pirates for Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Pirates for Life sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $123–$330 after Steam's cut $223–$507 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Space Pirates for Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Pirates for Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 234k–592k

best case 609k (TUNIC)

Games like Space Pirates for Life

A typical game among these

≈ 234k–592k copies

≈ $2.5M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: TUNIC at ≈ 464k–753k copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (7 of 8) and Metroidvania (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Puzzle, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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