How much revenue did Star Ship Survivor make?

$34–$91 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Ship Survivor sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Ship Survivor sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $34–$91 after Steam's cut $61–$140 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Star Ship Survivor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Ship Survivor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–19k

best case 68k (East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance)

Games like Star Ship Survivor

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–19k copies

≈ $21k–$69k after Steam's cut

from ~232 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: East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance at ≈ 52k–85k copies, ≈ $43k–$115k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 66 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 842.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Immersive Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Trading, priced around $3.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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