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How many copies did Stellar Ghosts Settlers sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$204–$550 after Steam's cut $370–$846 before the cut
from 3 reviews (3 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Stellar Ghosts Settlers out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Stellar Ghosts Settlers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–91k
best case 1.3M (Quake Champions)
Games like Stellar Ghosts Settlers

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–91k copies

≈ $76k–$154k 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.

5 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Quake Champions at ≈ 967k–1.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 392 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 110 to 33k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (5 of 7) and Hero Shooter (5 of 7).
The winners
Winners here lead with Arena Shooter + Hero Shooter. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Fast-Paced + Gore; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, 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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