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How many copies did Spaceship Driver License sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 471–766
$6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut
from 19 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 Spaceship Driver License and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spaceship Driver License's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 201k–322k
best case 1.2M (Hi-Fi RUSH)
Games like Spaceship Driver License

A typical game among these

≈ 201k–322k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hi-Fi RUSH at ≈ 893k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.8M 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 10 to 11k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Space Sim (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rhythm + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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).

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