How much revenue did Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition make?

$19k–$51k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 240 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $19k–$51k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before the cut; from 240 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 Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 86k–215k

best case 288k (Terraforming Mars)

Games like Galaxy Trucker: Extended Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 86k–215k copies

≈ $717k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Terraforming Mars at ≈ 220k–357k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Space, priced around $20.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 38 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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