How much revenue did Star Shelter make?

$73k–$195k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Shelter sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Shelter sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 434 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $73k–$195k after Steam's cut $132k–$300k before the cut; from 434 reviews (Mostly 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 Shelter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Shelter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–44k

best case 70k (COMPOUND)

Games like Star Shelter

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–44k copies

≈ $61k–$450k after Steam's cut

from ~438 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: COMPOUND at ≈ 53k–86k copies, ≈ $291k–$784k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 222 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 25 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-lite + VR, priced around $20.
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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Undead Development 2021	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $43k–$115k after Steam's cut $78k–$177k before the cut	$17.99	348 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieVR
Sublevel Zero Redux 2015	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $106k–$286k after Steam's cut $193k–$439k before the cut	$14.99	528 reviews Very Positive	IndieAction
COMPOUND 2022	Est. copies ≈ 53k–86k 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $291k–$784k after Steam's cut $530k–$1.2M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionRogue-lite
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