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How many copies did Asteroid Arena sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$112 before the cut
from 1 reviews (1 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 1 review. 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.

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We left Asteroid Arena out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Asteroid Arena's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 569–3k
best case 10k (Thunder Ray)
Games like Asteroid Arena

The middle of these games

≈ 569–3k copies

≈ $746–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~27 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Thunder Ray at ≈ 8k–13k copies, ≈ $32k–$87k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 102.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on 2D Fighter (6 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Sports + 2D Fighter, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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