How much revenue did Astro Hunters VR make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astro Hunters VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Astro Hunters VR sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 65 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before the cut; from 65 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 Astro Hunters VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astro Hunters VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–3.2M

best case 64.7M (War Thunder)

Games like Astro Hunters VR

The middle of these games

≈ 2.8M–3.2M copies

≈ $21.7M–$22.1M after Steam's cut

from ~86k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is VR (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M 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 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 659 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Open World + Racing + Driving; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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