How much revenue did Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander make?

$1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander sell?

Q: How many copies did Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander sell?

318k to 517k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 318k–517k; $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.2M before the cut; from 13k reviews (Very 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 Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.6M–7.0M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander

The middle of these games

≈ 3.6M–7.0M copies

≈ $23.0M–$65.1M after Steam's cut

from ~121k 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: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.1M copies, ≈ $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Base-Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 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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RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut $130.6M–$297.1M before the cut	$34.99	246k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Factorio 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.8M–9.4M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $55.8M–$150.2M after Steam's cut $101.5M–$231.0M before the cut	$35.00	234k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AutomationBase-Building
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.6M before the cut	$4.99	118k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Starbound 2016	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.1M–$56.8M after Steam's cut $38.4M–$87.4M before the cut	$14.99	123k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.4M–$76.4M after Steam's cut $51.7M–$117.5M before the cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
FTL: Faster Than Light 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's cut $24.8M–$56.4M before the cut	$9.99	79k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSpace
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.4M–$65.5M after Steam's cut $44.3M–$100.8M before the cut	$39.99	89k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Katana ZERO 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.3M before the cut	$14.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Pixel GraphicsAction