How much revenue did Apastron make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Apastron sell?

Q: How many copies did Apastron sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 25 reviews (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 Apastron out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apastron's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–886k

best case 55.9M (PAYDAY 2)

Games like Apastron

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–886k copies

≈ $9k–$13.2M after Steam's cut

from ~901 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PAYDAY 2 at ≈ 42.6M–69.2M copies, ≈ $117.1M–$314.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Looter Shooter (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + FPS, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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