How much revenue did FTL: Faster Than Light make?

$13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FTL: Faster Than Light sell?

Q: How many copies did FTL: Faster Than Light sell?

5.0M to 8.1M copies, based on its 79k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.0M–8.1M; $13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's cut $24.8M–$56.4M before the cut; from 79k 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 FTL: Faster Than Light out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including FTL: Faster Than Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 179k–295k

best case 259k (Quasimorph)

Games like FTL: Faster Than Light

The middle of these games

≈ 179k–295k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Quasimorph at ≈ 197k–321k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (4 of 7) and Open World (3 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Extraction Shooter + Simulation, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2026, and 1 of your 7 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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