How much revenue did Per Aspera make?

$1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Per Aspera sell?

Q: How many copies did Per Aspera sell?

143k to 232k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 143k–232k; $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.9M before the cut; from 6k 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 Per Aspera out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Per Aspera's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 132k–930k

best case 889k (War Selection)

Games like Per Aspera

The middle of these games

≈ 132k–930k copies

≈ $795k–$5.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: War Selection at ≈ 677k–1.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and RTS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + RTS.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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