How much revenue did ASTRA make?

$510–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ASTRA sell?

Q: How many copies did ASTRA sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $510–$1k after Steam's cut $927–$2k before Steam's cut; from 25 reviews (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 ASTRA and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ASTRA's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 246k–5.5M

best case 24.1M (DARK SOULS™ III)

Games like ASTRA

A typical game among these

≈ 246k–5.5M copies

≈ $1.8M–$24.2M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.8M copies, ≈ $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 637 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 3 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 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
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.8M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $302.7M–$813.9M after Steam's cut $550.4M–$1252.2M before Steam's cut	$59.99	441k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe (2009) 2009	Est. copies ≈ 0 too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $0 after Steam's cut $0 before Steam's cut	$19.99	0 reviews No user reviews	RPGOpen World
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) 2009	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.8M–$37.2M after Steam's cut $25.2M–$57.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RPGOpen World
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	79k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeRPG
Haiku, the Robot 2022	Est. copies ≈ 89k–144k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $489k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $888k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaAdventure
Dread Delusion 2024	Est. copies ≈ 132k–214k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $724k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon 2025	Est. copies ≈ 886k–1.4M SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $11.0M–$29.5M after Steam's cut $19.9M–$45.4M before Steam's cut	$44.99	36k reviews Very Positive	AdventureOpen World
Drova - Forsaken Kin 2024	Est. copies ≈ 243k–394k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Very Positive	RPGExploration