How much revenue did Star Trucker make?

$901k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Trucker sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Trucker sell?

131k to 213k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 131k–213k; $901k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly 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 Star Trucker out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Trucker's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 264k–3.8M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Star Trucker

The middle of these games

≈ 264k–3.8M copies

≈ $3.2M–$48.2M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 701 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 103 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Driving (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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