How much revenue did Station Commander make?

$272–$735 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Station Commander sell?

Q: How many copies did Station Commander sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $272–$735 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–330k

best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)

Games like Station Commander

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–330k copies

≈ $71k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~794 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: X4: Foundations at ≈ 911k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 377 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 69 to 791.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Simulation, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2026, 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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