How much revenue did Sid Meier's Starships make?

$498k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sid Meier's Starships sell?

Q: How many copies did Sid Meier's Starships sell?

121k to 196k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–196k; $498k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $905k–$2.1M 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 Sid Meier's Starships out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sid Meier's Starships's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 260k–418k

best case 1.3M (BATTLETECH)

Games like Sid Meier's Starships

The middle of these games

≈ 260k–418k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: BATTLETECH at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.8M 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 Turn-Based (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based + Sci-fi, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Mechs + Action + Futuristic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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