How much revenue did Star Control I and II make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Control I and II sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Control I and II sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 175 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 175 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 Control I and II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Control I and II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 119k–269k

best case 1.1M (Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront)

Games like Star Control I and II

The middle of these games

≈ 119k–269k copies

≈ $638k–$764k after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront at ≈ 839k–1.4M copies, ≈ $8.1M–$21.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Twin Stick Shooter + Top-Down Shooter, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Class-Based + Aliens; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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