How much revenue did Space Porter make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Space Porter sell?

Q: How many copies did Space Porter sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 16 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–24k

best case 56k (挂机神话)

Games like Space Porter

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–24k copies

≈ $9k–$31k after Steam's cut

from ~208 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: 挂机神话 at ≈ 43k–70k copies, ≈ $24k–$63k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 50 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Sokoban (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Word Game, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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