How much revenue did Deliver Us The Moon make?

$1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deliver Us The Moon sell?

Q: How many copies did Deliver Us The Moon sell?

275k to 447k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 275k–447k; $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before the cut; from 10k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Deliver Us The Moon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deliver Us The Moon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–2.8M

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like Deliver Us The Moon

The middle of these games

≈ 2.3M–2.8M copies

≈ $29.9M–$46.6M after Steam's cut

from ~61k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.7M–$303.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (6 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Sci-fi, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Space + Grand Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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