How much revenue did Startopia make?

$118k–$318k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Startopia sell?

Q: How many copies did Startopia sell?

61k to 100k copies, based on its 973 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 61k–100k; $118k–$318k after Steam's cut $215k–$489k before Steam's cut; from 973 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 Startopia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Startopia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–6.6M

best case 10.4M (Schedule I)

Games like Startopia

A typical game among these

≈ 3.5M–6.6M copies

≈ $49.7M–$72.2M after Steam's cut

from ~95k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies, ≈ $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 44k reviews in their first month; the range was 26k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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