How much revenue did Astronomics make?

$96k–$259k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astronomics sell?

Q: How many copies did Astronomics sell?

18k to 28k copies, based on its 706 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–28k; $96k–$259k after Steam's cut $175k–$398k before the cut; from 706 reviews (Very 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 Astronomics out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astronomics's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.1M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like Astronomics

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–1.1M copies

≈ $12.4M–$19.6M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.1M copies, ≈ $71.8M–$193.1M 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 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Building + Base-Building + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 43 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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