How much revenue did Ancient Space make?

$114k–$306k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancient Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancient Space sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 370 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $114k–$306k after Steam's cut $207k–$471k before the cut; from 370 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 Ancient Space out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancient Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 848k–1.1M

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like Ancient Space

The middle of these games

≈ 848k–1.1M copies

≈ $6.8M–$11.9M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (8 of 8) and RTS (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry 4X + Exploration + Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2023, 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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