How much revenue did Starship Commander: Arcade make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Starship Commander: Arcade sell?

Q: How many copies did Starship Commander: Arcade sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 53 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 Starship Commander: Arcade out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Starship Commander: Arcade's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–39k

best case 177k (Bigscreen Beta)

Games like Starship Commander: Arcade

The middle of these games

≈ 14k–39k copies

≈ $98k–$170k after Steam's cut

from ~590 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bigscreen Beta at ≈ 135k–219k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 152 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 325.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (7 of 8) and Female Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Software.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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