How much revenue did Gaia Beyond make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gaia Beyond sell?

Q: How many copies did Gaia Beyond sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 264 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut; from 264 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 Gaia Beyond and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gaia Beyond's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 705k–6.0M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Gaia Beyond

A typical game among these

≈ 705k–6.0M copies

≈ $8.3M–$67.6M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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