How much revenue did SPACERIFT: Arcanum System make?

$68k–$184k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SPACERIFT: Arcanum System sell?

Q: How many copies did SPACERIFT: Arcanum System sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 502 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $68k–$184k after Steam's cut $124k–$283k before the cut; from 502 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 SPACERIFT: Arcanum System out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SPACERIFT: Arcanum System's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 700k–6.0M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like SPACERIFT: Arcanum System

The middle of these games

≈ 700k–6.0M copies

≈ $8.3M–$67.3M after Steam's cut

from ~63k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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