How much revenue did Galactic Ruler make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Galactic Ruler sell?

Q: How many copies did Galactic Ruler sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 121 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before the cut; from 121 reviews (Mixed)

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 Galactic Ruler out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Galactic Ruler's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 293–32k

best case 108k (Red Solstice 2: Survivors)

Games like Galactic Ruler

The middle of these games

≈ 293–32k copies

≈ $701–$184k after Steam's cut

from ~39 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Real Time Tactics (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: Red Solstice 2: Survivors at ≈ 82k–134k copies, ≈ $339k–$911k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Real Time Tactics (4 of 8) and Tower Defense (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Strategy RPG + Zombies, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 of your 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 79 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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