How much revenue did Escape From BioStation make?

$906–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape From BioStation sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape From BioStation sell?

826 to 1k copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 826–1k; $906–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 24 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 Escape From BioStation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape From BioStation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 384k–1.2M

best case 1.4M (The Callisto Protocol™)

Games like Escape From BioStation

A typical game among these

≈ 384k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.9M–$16.4M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: The Callisto Protocol™ at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $17.9M–$48.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Sci-fi, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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The Turing Test 2016	Est. copies ≈ 335k–544k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSci-fi
Starbase 2021	Est. copies ≈ 168k–273k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	7k reviews Mixed	Open WorldBuilding
PULSAR: Lost Colony 2021	Est. copies ≈ 142k–231k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $782k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Space SimOpen World
Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $20.7M–$55.6M after Steam's cut $37.6M–$85.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	30k reviews Mixed	ActionFPS
The Callisto Protocol™ 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $17.9M–$48.1M after Steam's cut $32.5M–$74.0M before Steam's cut	$59.99	44k reviews Mixed	HorrorSci-fi
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS 2015	Est. copies ≈ 718k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	15k reviews Very Positive	RTSStrategy
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The Invincible 2023	Est. copies ≈ 341k–554k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	14k reviews Very Positive	AdventureRobots