How many copies did Endless Sky sell?

347k to 564k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Endless Sky make?

Endless Sky is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Endless Sky?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 347k–564k; from 7k 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 Endless Sky and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Endless Sky's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–10.1M

best case 25.0M (Destiny 2)

Games like Endless Sky

A typical game among these

≈ 4.6M–10.1M copies

≈ $50.6M–$152.5M after Steam's cut

from ~160k 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: Destiny 2 at ≈ 19.1M–31.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 96k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Base-Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Looter Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2021, 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Stormworks: Build and Rescue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	60k reviews Very Positive	SandboxBase-Building
RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut $132.2M–$300.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	249k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
ASTRONEER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.1M–$89.1M after Steam's cut $60.2M–$137.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	139k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOpen World
Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
Destiny 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 19.1M–31.0M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	663k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
PlanetSide 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 4.7M–7.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	75k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayFPS
STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	76k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
Halo Infinite 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	181k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayFPS