How much revenue did Stellar Sovereigns make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stellar Sovereigns sell?

Q: How many copies did Stellar Sovereigns sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut; from 31 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 865k–18.3M

best case 20.6M (Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI)

Games like Stellar Sovereigns

The middle of these games

≈ 865k–18.3M copies

≈ $15.4M–$271.5M after Steam's cut

from ~120k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI at ≈ 15.7M–25.6M copies, ≈ $259.5M–$697.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 12k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 4X (8 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Strategy + Historical, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Sid Meier's Civilization® V 2010	Est. copies ≈ 13.3M–21.6M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $109.7M–$295.1M after Steam's cut $199.5M–$454.0M before the cut	$29.99	211k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Turn-Based StrategyStrategy
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.7M–25.6M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $259.5M–$697.7M after Steam's cut $471.8M–$1073.4M before the cut	$59.99	378k reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
HUMANKIND™ 2021	Est. copies ≈ 709k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.8M–$26.2M after Steam's cut $17.7M–$40.3M before the cut	$49.99	29k reviews Mixed	StrategyTurn-Based Strategy
Galactic Civilizations III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 507k–824k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut $7.6M–$17.3M before the cut	$29.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	AliensSci-fi
Solar War 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut	$4.99	34 reviews Positive	StrategyIndie
Lord of Rigel 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before the cut	$19.99	115 reviews Mixed	MilitarySpace
Galactic Empire 2023	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut	$24.99	20 reviews Mixed	SpaceStrategy
Star Titans : War of the Galaxy 2025	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut	$14.99	20 reviews Positive	SimulationStrategy