How much revenue did Accretion make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Accretion sell?

Q: How many copies did Accretion sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 40 reviews (Mixed)

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 Accretion out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Accretion's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 622k–4.6M

best case 9.4M (Kerbal Space Program)

Games like Accretion

The middle of these games

≈ 622k–4.6M copies

≈ $6.9M–$54.0M after Steam's cut

from ~30k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kerbal Space Program at ≈ 7.1M–11.6M copies, ≈ $78.6M–$211.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Space (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 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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