How much revenue did Star Valor make?

$584k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Star Valor sell?

Q: How many copies did Star Valor sell?

85k to 138k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–138k; $584k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 3k 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 Star Valor out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Valor's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.7M–10.8M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Star Valor

The middle of these games

≈ 6.7M–10.8M copies

≈ $60.9M–$207.7M after Steam's cut

from ~146k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (5 of 8) and Space (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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