How much revenue did Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game make?

$1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game sell?

107k to 173k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 107k–173k; $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 349k–697k

best case 9.3M (Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition)

Games like Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game

A typical game among these

≈ 349k–697k copies

≈ $3.2M–$9.9M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition at ≈ 7.1M–11.5M copies, ≈ $87.8M–$236.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Story Rich, priced around $47. The breakout hits carry Character Customization + Turn-Based Strategy + Cinematic; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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