How much revenue did Sun Blast: Star Fighter make?

$21k–$56k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sun Blast: Star Fighter sell?

Q: How many copies did Sun Blast: Star Fighter sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 780 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$86k before Steam's cut; from 780 reviews (Mixed)

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 Sun Blast: Star Fighter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sun Blast: Star Fighter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–3.7M

best case 4.6M (Muse Dash)

Games like Sun Blast: Star Fighter

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies

≈ $34.4M–$60.1M after Steam's cut

from ~77k 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: Muse Dash at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (5 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Rhythm, priced around $3.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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