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Estimated revenue, market economics, and the top games tagged Sci-fi on Steam.
For developers
Total estimated revenue of Sci-fi games, grouped by the year they launched — a release-cohort trend, not a live time-series. Recent years are still accumulating revenue after launch.
Leaderboard
| # | Game | Est. revenue | Reviews | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HELLDIVERS™ 2 | $611.7M | 831.4K | 76% | $39.99 |
| 2 | Call of Duty®: Black Ops III | $369.9M | 231.2K | 85% | $59.99 |
| 3 | Satisfactory | $314M | 231.8K | 97% | $27.99 |
| 4 |
| Year | Releases | Median rev | $100k+ | $1M+ | Total genre revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 49 | $1.6M | 92% | 59% | $359.7M |
| 2025 | 112 | $1.4M | 88% | 58% | $1B |
| 2024 | 96 | $936.4K | 82% | 50% | $1.4B |
| 2023 | 101 | $1.4M | 83% | 57% | $967.5M |
| 2022 | 79 | $961.3K | 84% | 48% | $579.5M |
| 2021 | 65 | $1M | 75% | 51% | $341.1M |
| 2020 | 85 | $1M | 75% | 51% | $1.1B |
| 2019 | 73 | $900.2K | 79% | 47% | $622.5M |
| 2018 | 63 | $722.2K | 78% | 44% | $614.5M |
| 2017 | 82 | $511.2K | 72% | 29% | $239.7M |
| 2016 | 110 | $672.3K | 75% | 41% | $947.3M |
| 2015 | 85 | $685.8K | 75% | 46% | $909.2M |
Median beats average here: genre revenue is hit-driven, so the median shows what the typical Sci-fi launch actually earned. Recent years accumulate revenue for a while after launch.
| Stellaris |
| $277.7M |
| 196.1K |
| 86% |
| $49.99 |
| 5 | ARC Raiders | $255.1M | 408.9K | 83% | $39.99 |
| 6 | No Man's Sky | $230.9M | 412.1K | 85% | $23.99 |
| 7 | RimWorld | $176.6M | 243.1K | 98% | $34.99 |
| 8 | S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl | $165.8M | 102.4K | 81% | $59.99 |
| 9 | Subnautica | $162.4M | 376.9K | 97% | $29.99 |
| 10 | Deep Rock Galactic | $152.2M | 301.5K | 97% | $29.99 |
| 11 | Starfield | $151.3M | 114.5K | 59% | $49.99 |
| 12 | Detroit: Become Human | $142.2M | 219.7K | 96% | $39.99 |
| 13 | STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ | $141.7M | 78.6K | 71% | $69.99 |
| 14 | Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered | $140.1M | 96K | 96% | $59.99 |
| 15 | Halo: The Master Chief Collection | $137.1M | 260.4K | 92% | $39.99 |
| 16 | Titanfall® 2 | $134.9M | 252.4K | 96% | $29.99 |
| 17 | Fallout 4 | $132.8M | 426.7K | 81% | $19.99 |
| 18 | Half-Life: Alyx | $131.9M | 92.3K | 98% | $59.99 |
| 19 | Kerbal Space Program | $126.7M | 118.6K | 96% | $39.99 |
| 20 | Split Fiction | $117.2M | 124K | 97% | $49.99 |
| 21 | BioShock Infinite | $92.4M | 145K | 93% | $29.99 |
| 22 | ARK: Survival Evolved | $92.2M | 773K | 83% | $9.89 |
| 23 | Dead Space | $92M | 60.8K | 91% | $59.99 |
| 24 | ASTRONEER | $90.6M | 138.7K | 92% | $29.99 |
| 25 | STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ | $88.6M | 152.5K | 88% | $39.99 |
| 26 | ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ | $87.6M | 84.9K | 92% | $59.99 |
| 27 | Jurassic World Evolution 2 | $84.6M | 39.2K | 91% | $59.99 |
| 28 | Dune: Awakening | $81.5M | 77.6K | 71% | $49.99 |
| 29 | DOOM Eternal | $77.5M | 216K | 91% | $29.99 |
| 30 | Borderlands 2 | $75.4M | 209.9K | 90% | $19.99 |
| 31 | Oxygen Not Included | $74.8M | 142.7K | 97% | $24.99 |
| 32 | Subnautica 2 | $71.1M | 123.1K | 91% | $29.99 |
| 33 | DOOM | $71M | 219.9K | 96% | $19.99 |
| 34 | Jurassic World Evolution | $70.8M | 48.2K | 87% | $44.99 |
| 35 | R.E.P.O. | $70.2M | 329.8K | 96% | $9.99 |
| 36 | Portal 2 | $69.5M | 387.5K | 99% | $9.99 |
| 37 | DOOM: The Dark Ages | $68.4M | 43K | 88% | $69.99 |
| 38 | PRAGMATA | $68.4M | 50.3K | 97% | $59.99 |
| 39 | STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II | $67.8M | 86.5K | 88% | $39.99 |
| 40 | Lethal Company | $58.9M | 509.7K | 97% | $9.99 |
| 41 | Abiotic Factor | $57.4M | 57.3K | 96% | $34.99 |
| 42 | Elite Dangerous | $57.1M | 106.9K | 77% | $19.99 |
| 43 | Borderlands 4 | $54.4M | 81.4K | 59% | $34.99 |
| 44 | Metro Exodus | $53.1M | 134.1K | 90% | $29.99 |
| 45 | The Callisto Protocol™ | $52.3M | 43.5K | 65% | $59.99 |
| 46 | Marathon | $51.6M | 62.5K | 77% | $39.99 |
| 47 | Kerbal Space Program 2 | $51.2M | 31.9K | 26% | $49.99 |
| 48 | Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader | $48.8M | 46.4K | 88% | $49.99 |
| 49 | Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy | $48.6M | 44.8K | 94% | $59.99 |
| 50 | Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales | $48.5M | 37.4K | 93% | $49.99 |