How much revenue did Take On Mars make?

$192k–$516k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Take On Mars sell?

Q: How many copies did Take On Mars sell?

70k to 114k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 70k–114k; $192k–$516k after Steam's cut $349k–$794k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mixed)

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 Take On Mars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Take On Mars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–2.1M

best case 9.4M (Kerbal Space Program)

Games like Take On Mars

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–2.1M copies

≈ $12k–$20.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kerbal Space Program at ≈ 7.1M–11.6M copies, ≈ $78.6M–$211.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 109 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Mars (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Kerbal Space Program 2015	Est. copies ≈ 7.1M–11.6M 91x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $78.6M–$211.3M after Steam's cut $142.9M–$325.1M before the cut	$39.99	146k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SpaceSimulation
Space Engineers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M 84x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.3M–$57.2M after Steam's cut $38.7M–$88.0M before the cut	$19.99	134k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSandbox
Mars Horizon 2020	Est. copies ≈ 77k–125k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $422k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $766k–$1.7M before the cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	ManagementSpace
Surviving Mars 2018	Est. copies ≈ 873k–1.4M 18x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony Sim City Builder
Enter The Moon 2018	Est. copies ≈ 182–296 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $325–$874 after Steam's cut $591–$1k before the cut	$6.49	6 reviews 6 user reviews	Space SimSpace
Rocket Explorer 2021	Est. copies ≈ 645–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut	$12.99	26 reviews Mixed	Early AccessExploration
OVERVIEW (A Walk Through The Universe) 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $10k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$42k before the cut	$9.99	123 reviews Mostly Positive	EducationCasual
Utopia Colony 2026	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $24k–$54k before the cut	$16.99	113 reviews Mixed	Early AccessSpace