How much revenue did Swingularity make?

$306–$824 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swingularity sell?

Q: How many copies did Swingularity sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 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 Swingularity and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swingularity's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 705k–11.2M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Swingularity

A typical game among these

≈ 705k–11.2M copies

≈ $9.2M–$159.5M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 8k to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (6 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.5M–28.5M 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut $526.0M–$1196.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	422k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
FTL: Faster Than Light 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut $24.9M–$56.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	79k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSpace
Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
Hardspace: Shipbreaker 2022	Est. copies ≈ 557k–905k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.2M before Steam's cut	$34.99	22k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSci-fi
X4: Foundations 2018	Est. copies ≈ 920k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.0M after Steam's cut $23.0M–$52.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSimulation
The Universim 2024	Est. copies ≈ 265k–430k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	City BuilderGod Game
SpaceEngine 2019	Est. copies ≈ 480k–779k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.6M after Steam's cut $7.2M–$16.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessOpen World
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut $141.5M–$321.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op