How many copies did Alas Astra sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Alas Astra make?

Alas Astra is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Alas Astra?

Estimated owners: ≈ 992–2k; from 40 reviews (Mostly 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 Alas Astra out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alas Astra's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 367k–4.1M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Alas Astra

The middle of these games

≈ 367k–4.1M copies

≈ $4.2M–$54.5M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 532 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2023, 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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