How much revenue did Space Colony: Steam Edition make?

$134k–$360k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Colony: Steam Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Colony: Steam Edition sell?

32k to 53k copies, based on its 665 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–53k; $134k–$360k after Steam's cut $243k–$553k before Steam's cut; from 665 reviews (Very 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 Space Colony: Steam Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Colony: Steam Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 51k–69k

best case 71k (Ancient Cities)

Games like Space Colony: Steam Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 51k–69k copies

≈ $476k–$669k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Ancient Cities at ≈ 54k–88k copies, ≈ $444k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 348 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (8 of 8) and Colony Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, 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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