How much revenue did Asteroid Drift make?

$591–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Asteroid Drift sell?

Q: How many copies did Asteroid Drift sell?

719 to 1k copies, based on its 29 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 719–1k; $591–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 29 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 Asteroid Drift out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Asteroid Drift's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–20k

best case 75k (Will Glow the Wisp)

Games like Asteroid Drift

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–20k copies

≈ $11k–$41k after Steam's cut

from ~189 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Will Glow the Wisp at ≈ 57k–93k copies, ≈ $31k–$84k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 45.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Precision Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Side Scroller + Bullet Hell, priced around $2.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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