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How many copies did A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 35k–57k
$173k–$465k after Steam's cut $315k–$716k before the cut
from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342k–449k
best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)
Games like A Sky Full of Stars 仰望夜空的星辰

The middle of these games

≈ 342k–449k copies

≈ $828k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 837k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 800 to 7k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Dating Sim (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Horror + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 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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