How much revenue did Stellar Navigator make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stellar Navigator sell?

Q: How many copies did Stellar Navigator sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 13 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 Stellar Navigator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stellar Navigator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.7M–6.9M

best case 10.8M (Stellaris)

Games like Stellar Navigator

The middle of these games

≈ 5.7M–6.9M copies

≈ $25.2M–$110.1M after Steam's cut

from ~107k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (8 of 8) and Space (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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