How much revenue did Starcremental make?

$449–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Starcremental sell?

Q: How many copies did Starcremental sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $449–$1k after Steam's cut $816–$2k before Steam's cut; from 22 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 Starcremental and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starcremental's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–2k

best case 1.2M (Loop Hero)

Games like Starcremental

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–2k copies

≈ $2k–$10k after Steam's cut

from ~43 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Loop Hero at ≈ 907k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$10.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 15k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (7 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Rogue-lite + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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