How much revenue did Space Scavenger make?

$28k–$76k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Scavenger sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Scavenger sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 319 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$117k before the cut; from 319 reviews (Very 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 Space Scavenger out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Scavenger's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 326–4k

best case 19k (Run Build Pew!)

Games like Space Scavenger

The middle of these games

≈ 326–4k copies

≈ $729–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~52 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Run Build Pew! at ≈ 14k–23k copies, ≈ $12k–$31k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 184.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Action Roguelike, priced around $3.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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