How much revenue did In Stars And Time make?

$1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did In Stars And Time sell?

Q: How many copies did In Stars And Time sell?

218k to 354k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 218k–354k; $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before the cut; from 9k 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 In Stars And Time out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including In Stars And Time's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 465k–604k

best case 1.8M (The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered)

Games like In Stars And Time

The middle of these games

≈ 465k–604k copies

≈ $4.8M–$8.9M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered at ≈ 1.4M–2.2M copies, ≈ $18.6M–$50.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 621 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Post-apocalyptic + Third-Person Shooter + Action-Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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