How much revenue did BACK OF SPACE make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BACK OF SPACE sell?

Q: How many copies did BACK OF SPACE sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 148 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$42k before Steam's cut; from 148 reviews (Mostly 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 BACK OF SPACE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BACK OF SPACE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 254k–1.0M

best case 2.8M (ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™)

Games like BACK OF SPACE

A typical game among these

≈ 254k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fast-Paced (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies, ≈ $35.2M–$94.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 768 to 46k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fast-Paced (4 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Character Customization, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 2 of the 8 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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ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.5M 6.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $35.2M–$94.8M after Steam's cut $64.1M–$145.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	86k reviews Very Positive	MechsCharacter Customization
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