How many copies did Pixel Starships sell?

An estimated 71k to 116k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Pixel Starships make?

Pixel Starships is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Pixel Starships?

Estimated owners: ≈ 71k–116k; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 Pixel Starships out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Starships's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–9.8M

best case 31.6M (Portal 2)

The Simulation lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 7.6M copies.

A typical game

≈ 7.6M copies

≈ $86.9M after Steam's cut

from ~143k reviews

Best case

≈ 31.6M copies

Portal 2 · ≈ $121.9M after Steam's cut

from 463k reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The games you compared span 2011 to 2021, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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