How much revenue did Astro Colony make?

$368k–$989k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astro Colony sell?

Q: How many copies did Astro Colony sell?

67k to 109k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–109k; $368k–$989k after Steam's cut $669k–$1.5M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Very 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 Astro Colony out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astro Colony's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–2.5M

best case 5.3M (ASTRONEER)

Games like Astro Colony

The middle of these games

≈ 117k–2.5M copies

≈ $1.3M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: ASTRONEER at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $33.0M–$88.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (6 of 8) and Space (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $30.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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