How much revenue did Castaway Station make?

$545–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Castaway Station sell?

Q: How many copies did Castaway Station sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $545–$1k after Steam's cut $991–$2k before the cut; from 16 reviews (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 Castaway Station out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Castaway Station's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106k–236k

best case 746k (Monster Train)

Games like Castaway Station

The middle of these games

≈ 106k–236k copies

≈ $796k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Monster Train at ≈ 569k–924k copies, ≈ $3.9M–$10.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Tactics (7 of 8) and Card Battler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Wildfrost 2023	Est. copies ≈ 219k–356k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before the cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Card BattlerDifficult
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