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How many copies did Star Saviors sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 70k–114k
$38k–$103k after Steam's cut $70k–$158k before the cut
from 2k reviews (Very 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 Star Saviors out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Saviors's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–7.8M
best case 8.6M (Vampire Survivors)
Games like Star Saviors

The middle of these games

≈ 5.7M–7.8M copies

≈ $19.6M–$70.4M after Steam's cut

from ~202k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (3 of 7), 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: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 58k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 129k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (3 of 7) and Bullet Hell (3 of 7).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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