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How many copies did Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 34k–54k
$323k–$867k after Steam's cut $587k–$1.3M 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 Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–5.3M
best case 9.8M (RimWorld)
Games like Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–5.3M copies

≈ $22.0M–$54.5M after Steam's cut

from ~113k 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 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 26k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Building (6 of 8) and Base-Building (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 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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SteamSpy 2M–5M
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2.2x vs typical
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