How much revenue did International Space Banana make?

$824–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did International Space Banana sell?

Q: How many copies did International Space Banana sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 122 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $824–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 122 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 International Space Banana out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including International Space Banana's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106k–142k

best case 172k (Star Trucker)

Games like International Space Banana

The middle of these games

≈ 106k–142k copies

≈ $605k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Star Trucker at ≈ 131k–213k copies, ≈ $901k–$2.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 391 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space Sim (7 of 8) and Space (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Transportation + Space Sim, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, 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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