How much revenue did stardust make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did stardust sell?

Q: How many copies did stardust sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut; from 12 reviews (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 stardust out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including stardust's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–54k

best case 103k (Arise: A Simple Story)

Games like stardust

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–54k copies

≈ $17k–$464k after Steam's cut

from ~255 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Emotional (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: Arise: A Simple Story at ≈ 78k–128k copies, ≈ $431k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 115 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 538.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Emotional (4 of 8) and Philosophical (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Emotional + 3D Platformer, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. 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 43 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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