How much revenue did Take On Mars make?

$192k–$516k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Take On Mars sell?

Q: How many copies did Take On Mars sell?

70k to 114k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–114k; $192k–$516k after Steam's cut $349k–$794k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Take On Mars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Take On Mars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–2.1M

best case 9.4M (Kerbal Space Program)

Games like Take On Mars

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–2.1M copies

≈ $12k–$20.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Kerbal Space Program at ≈ 7.2M–11.7M copies, ≈ $79.0M–$212.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 108 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (8 of 8) and Mars (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 1 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Kerbal Space Program 2015	Est. copies ≈ 7.2M–11.7M 91x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $79.0M–$212.3M after Steam's cut $143.6M–$326.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	147k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SpaceSimulation
Space Engineers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M 83x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.3M–$57.3M after Steam's cut $38.7M–$88.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	135k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSandbox
Mars Horizon 2020	Est. copies ≈ 77k–125k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $422k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $768k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	ManagementSpace
Surviving Mars 2018	Est. copies ≈ 889k–1.4M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony Sim City Builder
Enter The Moon 2018	Est. copies ≈ 182–296 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $325–$874 after Steam's cut $591–$1k before Steam's cut	$6.49	6 reviews 6 user reviews	Space SimSpace
Rocket Explorer 2021	Est. copies ≈ 645–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$12.99	26 reviews Mixed	Early AccessExploration
OVERVIEW (A Walk Through The Universe) 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $10k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$42k before Steam's cut	$9.99	123 reviews Mostly Positive	EducationCasual
Utopia Colony 2026	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before Steam's cut	$16.99	113 reviews Mixed	Early AccessSpace