How much revenue did Curved Space make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Curved Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Curved Space sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967–2k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut; from 39 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 Curved Space out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Curved Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 46k–89k

best case 152k (Star of Providence)

Games like Curved Space

The middle of these games

≈ 46k–89k copies

≈ $142k–$286k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Star of Providence at ≈ 116k–188k copies, ≈ $477k–$1.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (7 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + Bullet Hell, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Rogue-lite + Adventure + Creature Collector; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, 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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