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How many copies did Space Hit sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 413–671
$112–$302 after Steam's cut $204–$465 before the cut
from 12 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 Space Hit out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Space Hit's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 237k–465k
best case 3.3M (EVE Online)
Games like Space Hit

The middle of these games

≈ 237k–465k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: EVE Online at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 761 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 585 to 12k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Space (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Space + Open World.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2022, 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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