How much revenue did The Star Named EOS make?

$70k–$189k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Star Named EOS sell?

Q: How many copies did The Star Named EOS sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 686 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $70k–$189k after Steam's cut $128k–$290k before the cut; from 686 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Star Named EOS out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Star Named EOS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–54k

best case 250k (Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery)

Games like The Star Named EOS

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–54k copies

≈ $14k–$139k after Steam's cut

from ~471 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.

Best case: Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery at ≈ 191k–310k copies, ≈ $681k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 254 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Puzzle, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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