How much revenue did Star Control I and II make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Control I and II sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Control I and II sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 177 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut; from 177 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 Star Control I and II and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Control I and II's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–511k

best case 1.1M (Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront)

Games like Star Control I and II

A typical game among these

≈ 148k–511k copies

≈ $703k–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront at ≈ 855k–1.4M copies, ≈ $8.2M–$22.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with World War II + Historical, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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