How much revenue did Astronaut Assault make?

$272–$732 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astronaut Assault sell?

Q: How many copies did Astronaut Assault sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 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 Astronaut Assault and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astronaut Assault's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 564k–1.0M

best case 13.1M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Astronaut Assault

A typical game among these

≈ 564k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.2M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.2M copies, ≈ $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $29. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Online Co-Op + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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Rise to Ruins 2019	Est. copies ≈ 224k–363k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $922k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Tower Defense Colony Sim
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