How much revenue did Space Simulation Toolkit make?

$89k–$239k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Simulation Toolkit sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Simulation Toolkit sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 521 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $89k–$239k after Steam's cut $161k–$367k before the cut; from 521 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 Simulation Toolkit out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Simulation Toolkit's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 769k–6.2M

best case 26.7M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Space Simulation Toolkit

The middle of these games

≈ 769k–6.2M copies

≈ $8.9M–$65.2M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.3M–33.0M copies, ≈ $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13k to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Sandbox (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2026, 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 70 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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