How much revenue did StarDrive 2 make?

$846k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did StarDrive 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did StarDrive 2 sell?

103k to 167k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 103k–167k; $846k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.5M 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 StarDrive 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including StarDrive 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–1.0M

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like StarDrive 2

The middle of these games

≈ 131k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.1M–$10.6M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 4X (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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