How much revenue did Starship 43 - The Last Astronaut VR make?

$366–$991 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Starship 43 - The Last Astronaut VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Starship 43 - The Last Astronaut VR sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $366–$991 after Steam's cut $666–$2k before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Starship 43 - The Last Astronaut VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starship 43 - The Last Astronaut VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28.6M–35.7M

best case 37.7M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like Starship 43 - The Last Astronaut VR

The middle of these games

≈ 28.6M–35.7M copies

≈ $64.2M–$582.7M after Steam's cut

from ~761k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.7M–46.7M copies, ≈ $315.9M–$849.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 163k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 326k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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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