How much revenue did Sword of the Stars: The Pit make?

$270k–$725k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sword of the Stars: The Pit sell?

Q: How many copies did Sword of the Stars: The Pit sell?

98k to 160k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 98k–160k; $270k–$725k after Steam's cut $491k–$1.1M 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 Sword of the Stars: The Pit out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sword of the Stars: The Pit's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–6.1M

best case 10.0M (Hades)

Games like Sword of the Stars: The Pit

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–6.1M copies

≈ $10.0M–$56.0M after Steam's cut

from ~76k 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: Hades at ≈ 7.6M–12.4M copies, ≈ $52.5M–$141.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 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).

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