How much revenue did Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy make?

$35k–$95k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 132 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $64k–$146k before the cut; from 132 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 Trek™: Starfleet Academy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 52k–330k

best case 6.9M (Elite Dangerous)

Games like Star Trek™: Starfleet Academy

The middle of these games

≈ 52k–330k copies

≈ $232k–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Elite Dangerous at ≈ 5.2M–8.5M copies, ≈ $28.8M–$77.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Space, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2017, 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 43 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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