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How big is Star Trek Online?

Estimated owners
≈ 1.3M–2.2M
from 21k 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 Star Trek Online out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Star Trek Online's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–16k
best case 2.4M (STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™)
Games like Star Trek Online

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–16k copies

≈ $47k–$100k after Steam's cut

from ~360 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: STAR WARS™: The Old Republic™ at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 212 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 28 to 7k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on MMORPG (6 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + RPG + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 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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