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How many copies did Astro Attack sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before Steam's cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Only 7 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 Astro Attack and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astro Attack's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 36k–55k
best case 80k (pureya)
Games like Astro Attack

A typical game among these

≈ 36k–55k copies

≈ $231k–$488k after Steam's cut

from ~874 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: pureya at ≈ 61k–99k copies, ≈ $100k–$270k after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 440 reviews in their first month; the range was 241 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Arcade (7 of 8) and Side Scroller (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Side Scroller, priced around $6.
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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