How much revenue did Rebel Galaxy Outlaw make?

$245k–$659k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rebel Galaxy Outlaw sell?

Q: How many copies did Rebel Galaxy Outlaw sell?

30k to 48k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–48k; $245k–$659k after Steam's cut $446k–$1.0M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rebel Galaxy Outlaw's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–32k

best case 5.7M (Starfield)

Games like Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–32k copies

≈ $31k–$71k after Steam's cut

from ~231 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Starfield at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies, ≈ $59.8M–$160.9M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 94 to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Space (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Open World, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + First-Person + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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