How much revenue did Astrox Imperium make?

$150k–$403k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astrox Imperium sell?

Q: How many copies did Astrox Imperium sell?

36k to 59k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 36k–59k; $150k–$403k after Steam's cut $273k–$621k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Astrox Imperium and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astrox Imperium's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 662k–4.0M

best case 9.4M (Kerbal Space Program)

Games like Astrox Imperium

A typical game among these

≈ 662k–4.0M copies

≈ $16.5M–$38.7M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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: Kerbal Space Program at ≈ 7.2M–11.7M copies, ≈ $79.0M–$212.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 583 to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Space (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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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