How much revenue did Approaching Infinity make?

$91k–$244k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Approaching Infinity sell?

Q: How many copies did Approaching Infinity sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 740 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $91k–$244k after Steam's cut $165k–$376k before the cut; from 740 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 Approaching Infinity out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Approaching Infinity's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.3M–23.8M

best case 31.7M (Cyberpunk 2077)

Games like Approaching Infinity

The middle of these games

≈ 6.3M–23.8M copies

≈ $92.9M–$368.3M after Steam's cut

from ~320k 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: Cyberpunk 2077 at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $399.0M–$1072.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2020, 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 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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