How much revenue did Asteroid Core make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Asteroid Core sell?

Q: How many copies did Asteroid Core sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 40 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 Asteroid Core and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Asteroid Core's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–22k

best case 329k (Time Clickers)

Games like Asteroid Core

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–22k copies

≈ $4k–$27k after Steam's cut

from ~568 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Time Clickers at ≈ 250k–407k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 139 reviews in their first month; the range was 45 to 423.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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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