How much revenue did Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy make?

$36k–$96k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy sell?

6k to 11k copies, based on its 133 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–11k; $36k–$96k after Steam's cut $65k–$148k before Steam's cut; from 133 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 Trek™: Starfleet Academy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–331k

best case 6.9M (Elite Dangerous)

Games like Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy

A typical game among these

≈ 52k–331k copies

≈ $234k–$4.3M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Elite Dangerous at ≈ 5.3M–8.5M copies, ≈ $28.9M–$77.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Space, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2017, 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 43 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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X Rebirth 2013	Est. copies ≈ 462k–751k 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	7k reviews Mixed	SimulationSpace
House of the Dying Sun 2016	Est. copies ≈ 85k–139k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $470k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $854k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionSimulation
Freespace 2 2014	Est. copies ≈ 18k–29k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $124k–$334k after Steam's cut $226k–$514k before Steam's cut	$24.99	323 reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceSci-fi
X3: Terran Conflict 2008	Est. copies ≈ 182k–295k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $799k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$15.99	3k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSimulation
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