How much revenue did The Astronomy Game make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Astronomy Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Astronomy Game sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Astronomy Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Astronomy Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–33k

best case 312k (Aliya: Timelink)

Games like The Astronomy Game

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–33k copies

≈ $4k–$191k after Steam's cut

from ~630 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Aliya: Timelink at ≈ 238k–387k copies, ≈ $196k–$526k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 391 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Text-Based (6 of 8) and Trivia (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Visual Novel, priced around $3.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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