How much revenue did Startopia make?

$118k–$317k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Startopia sell?

Q: How many copies did Startopia sell?

61k to 100k copies, based on its 971 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 61k–100k; $118k–$317k after Steam's cut $214k–$488k before the cut; from 971 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 Startopia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Startopia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–6.5M

best case 10.2M (Schedule I)

Games like Startopia

The middle of these games

≈ 3.5M–6.5M copies

≈ $49.0M–$71.6M after Steam's cut

from ~95k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 44k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 26k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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