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How many copies did Stargate: Timekeepers sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–11k
$57k–$155k after Steam's cut $105k–$238k before the cut
from 281 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464–8k
best case 608k (Aliens: Dark Descent)
Games like Stargate: Timekeepers

The middle of these games

≈ 464–8k copies

≈ $2k–$70k after Steam's cut

from ~47 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Real Time Tactics (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: Aliens: Dark Descent at ≈ 463k–753k copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 6k 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 Real Time Tactics (4 of 8) and Sci-fi (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Tactical + RTS, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2020 to 2026, and 3 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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