How much revenue did StarFringe: Adversus make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did StarFringe: Adversus sell?

Q: How many copies did StarFringe: Adversus sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 235 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$40k before the cut; from 235 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 StarFringe: Adversus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including StarFringe: Adversus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 620k–1.0M

best case 3.0M (Dyson Sphere Program)

Games like StarFringe: Adversus

The middle of these games

≈ 620k–1.0M copies

≈ $5.4M–$7.3M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Dyson Sphere Program at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $12.5M–$33.6M 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 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Space, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Automation + Open World + Resource Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, 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 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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