How much revenue did ASTRA make?

$613–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ASTRA sell?

Q: How many copies did ASTRA sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $613–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 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 ASTRA out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ASTRA's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 174k–288k

best case 913k (Night in the Woods)

Games like ASTRA

The middle of these games

≈ 174k–288k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 2D Platformer (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Night in the Woods at ≈ 695k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 767 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 69 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Dark Humor, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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