How much revenue did Star Traders: Frontiers make?

$477k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Traders: Frontiers sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Traders: Frontiers sell?

116k to 188k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 116k–188k; $477k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $868k–$2.0M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Star Traders: Frontiers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Traders: Frontiers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–9.5M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like Star Traders: Frontiers

The middle of these games

≈ 2.5M–9.5M copies

≈ $36.3M–$138.8M after Steam's cut

from ~118k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies, ≈ $72.0M–$193.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2023, and none of them 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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