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How many copies did Station to Station sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 48k–79k
$239k–$643k after Steam's cut $435k–$990k before the cut
from 2k 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 Station to Station out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Station to Station's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 776k–1.5M
best case 1.7M (Besiege)
Games like Station to Station

The middle of these games

≈ 776k–1.5M copies

≈ $4.1M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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.

Best case: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 31k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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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