How much revenue did Starpoint Gemini 2 make?

$2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Starpoint Gemini 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Starpoint Gemini 2 sell?

231k to 375k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 231k–375k; $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.2M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Starpoint Gemini 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starpoint Gemini 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–6.6M

best case 9.9M (RimWorld)

Games like Starpoint Gemini 2

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–6.6M copies

≈ $9.3M–$51.7M 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 Open World (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: RimWorld at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M copies, ≈ $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2020, 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 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
Mountain 2014	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $248k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$0.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SimulationIndie
RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut $132.2M–$300.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	249k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
FTL: Faster Than Light 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut $24.9M–$56.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	79k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSpace
SPORE™ 2008	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut $46.0M–$104.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	73k reviews Very Positive	God GameOpen World
EVE Online 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.5M–4.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	40k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceFree to Play
From the Depths 2020	Est. copies ≈ 319k–518k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.1M before Steam's cut	$24.99	13k reviews Very Positive	BuildingNaval Combat
Elite Dangerous 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.5M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.9M–$77.8M after Steam's cut $52.6M–$119.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	108k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSpace
Star Conflict 2013	Est. copies ≈ 963k–1.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play