How much revenue did Scars of Mars make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scars of Mars sell?

Q: How many copies did Scars of Mars sell?

769 to 1k copies, based on its 31 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 769–1k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before the cut; from 31 reviews (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 Scars of Mars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scars of Mars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14.2M–26.0M

best case 27.8M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Scars of Mars

The middle of these games

≈ 14.2M–26.0M copies

≈ $203.5M–$308.1M after Steam's cut

from ~413k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.2M–34.4M copies, ≈ $349.3M–$939.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 171k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Character Customization (7 of 8) and Fantasy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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