How much revenue did STAR WARS™: Squadrons make?

$7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did STAR WARS™: Squadrons sell?

Q: How many copies did STAR WARS™: Squadrons sell?

698k to 1.1M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 698k–1.1M; $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before the cut; from 28k 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 STAR WARS™: Squadrons out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAR WARS™: Squadrons's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 238k–764k

best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)

Games like STAR WARS™: Squadrons

The middle of these games

≈ 238k–764k copies

≈ $1.7M–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: X4: Foundations at ≈ 911k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (6 of 8) and Space Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Simulation, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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 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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