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How many copies did Outworld Station sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 21k–34k
$109k–$293k after Steam's cut $198k–$451k before the cut
from 842 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 Outworld Station out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Outworld Station's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–2.5M
best case 5.3M (ASTRONEER)
Games like Outworld Station

The middle of these games

≈ 117k–2.5M copies

≈ $1.3M–$22.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: ASTRONEER at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $33.0M–$88.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 32k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Automation (6 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $30.
The era
5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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 43 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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