How much revenue did Spaceship Driver License make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spaceship Driver License sell?

Q: How many copies did Spaceship Driver License sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 19 reviews (Mostly 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 Spaceship Driver License out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spaceship Driver License's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 200k–321k

best case 1.2M (Hi-Fi RUSH)

Games like Spaceship Driver License

The middle of these games

≈ 200k–321k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hi-Fi RUSH at ≈ 890k–1.4M copies, ≈ $7.3M–$19.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space Sim (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Hack and Slash, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 3 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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