How many copies did Starfighter General sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Starfighter General make?

Starfighter General is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Starfighter General?

Estimated owners: ≈ 794–1k; from 32 reviews (Mostly 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 Starfighter General out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starfighter General's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–6.9M

best case 22.7M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Starfighter General

The middle of these games

≈ 5.7M–6.9M copies

≈ $25.2M–$110.2M after Steam's cut

from ~108k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.3M–28.1M copies, ≈ $285.6M–$767.9M 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 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Procedural Generation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.3M–28.1M 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $285.6M–$767.9M after Steam's cut $519.3M–$1181.5M before the cut	$59.99	416k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
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