How much revenue did BACK OF SPACE make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BACK OF SPACE sell?

Q: How many copies did BACK OF SPACE sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 147 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before the cut; from 147 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 BACK OF SPACE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BACK OF SPACE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 253k–1.0M

best case 2.8M (ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™)

Games like BACK OF SPACE

The middle of these games

≈ 253k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.9M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Fast-Paced (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies, ≈ $35.0M–$94.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 770 to 46k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fast-Paced (4 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mechs + Character Customization, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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 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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