How much revenue did Sword and Space make?

$0 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword and Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword and Space sell?

0 copies, based on its 0 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Too new to estimate: Games in its genre land ≈ 139–1.8M That is what its genre does, not a prediction for this game.; No reviews yet, so there is nothing to estimate from. That is not the same as selling nothing.

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139–1.8M

best case 8.5M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Sword and Space

The middle of these games

≈ 139–1.8M copies

≈ $111–$12.7M after Steam's cut

from ~596 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $71.2M–$191.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 8k 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 Story Rich (5 of 8) and Faith (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40.
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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