How many copies did Beyond the Stars VR sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 51 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Beyond the Stars VR make?

Beyond the Stars VR is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Beyond the Stars VR?

Estimated owners: ≈ 1k–2k; from 51 reviews (Mostly 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 Beyond the Stars VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Beyond the Stars VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–193k

best case 1.7M (The Plan)

Games like Beyond the Stars VR

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–193k copies

≈ $13k–$279k after Steam's cut

from ~627 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Short (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: The Plan at ≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 48 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 69.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Short (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Short + Simulation.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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The Plan 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M 38x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
Sunlight 2021	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before the cut	$3.99	465 reviews Mostly Positive	AdventureExperimental
Flower 2019	Est. copies ≈ 147k–238k 8.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $282k–$758k after Steam's cut $512k–$1.2M before the cut	$6.99	5k reviews Mostly Positive	ImmersiveRelaxing
Recollection 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut	$1.99	133 reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericNature
LOST EMBER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 149k–242k 8.3x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.1M before the cut	$29.99	5k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericExploration
Far from Noise 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut	$7.99	202 reviews Very Positive	ConversationNarrative
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening 2019	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$88k before the cut	$3.39	788 reviews Very Positive	Female ProtagonistAdventure
Loverowind 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $641–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$0.99	95 reviews Mixed	CasualAdventure