How much revenue did Star Explorers make?

$11k–$28k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Explorers sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Explorers sell?

8k to 12k copies, based on its 253 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–12k; $11k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before the cut; from 253 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 Explorers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Explorers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 600k–961k

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Star Explorers

The middle of these games

≈ 600k–961k copies

≈ $7.2M–$16.5M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M 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 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space, priced around $40.
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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