How much revenue did Astronaut Assault make?

$272–$732 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Astronaut Assault sell?

Q: How many copies did Astronaut Assault sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before the cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Thin evidence: 4 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 Astronaut Assault out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Astronaut Assault's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 561k–1.0M

best case 13.0M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Astronaut Assault

The middle of these games

≈ 561k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.2M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.1M copies, ≈ $122.7M–$330.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Co-op, priced around $29. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Online Co-Op + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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