How much revenue did Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak make?

$5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak sell?

Q: How many copies did Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak sell?

372k to 604k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372k–604k; $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Mostly 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 Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–6.8M

best case 23.2M (Half-Life 2)

Games like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–6.8M copies

≈ $16.2M–$80.0M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Half-Life 2 at ≈ 17.7M–28.8M copies, ≈ $48.6M–$130.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 42 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (8 of 8) and Story Rich (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Sci-fi, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 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 79 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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