How much revenue did Delivery in Space make?

$367–$985 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Delivery in Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Delivery in Space sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $367–$985 after Steam's cut $667–$2k before the cut; from 27 reviews (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 Delivery in Space out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Delivery in Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–156k

best case 156k (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)

Games like Delivery in Space

The middle of these games

≈ 122k–156k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Best case: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist at ≈ 119k–193k copies, ≈ $818k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 853 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 223 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Deckbuilding (5 of 8) and Card Game (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Life Sim, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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