How much revenue did ALONE IN SPACE make?

$18k–$48k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ALONE IN SPACE sell?

Q: How many copies did ALONE IN SPACE sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 157 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $18k–$48k after Steam's cut $33k–$74k before Steam's cut; from 157 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 ALONE IN SPACE and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including ALONE IN SPACE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–4.1M

best case 5.7M (Starfield)

Games like ALONE IN SPACE

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–4.1M copies

≈ $15.0M–$69.5M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Starfield at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies, ≈ $59.8M–$160.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 3) and Space (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Open World, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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
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
Prey 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.5M–$41.8M after Steam's cut $28.2M–$64.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	55k reviews Very Positive	Sci-fiImmersive Sim
Starfield 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $59.8M–$160.9M after Steam's cut $108.8M–$247.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	175k reviews Mixed	SpaceSingleplayer