Steam tag
Estimated revenue, market economics, and the top games tagged Space on Steam.
Share of Space games by estimated lifetime revenue. Averages hide this — a few hits pull the mean far above what a typical game in the genre makes.
For developers
Total estimated revenue of Space 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™ 2Steam | approximately $616.8M | 1.2M | 76% | $39.99 |
| 2 | No Man's SkySteam | approximately $432.1M | 420.7K | 85% | $59.99 |
Modeled estimate, not reported sales
| Year | Releases | Median rev | $100k+ | $1M+ | Total genre revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.1K | approximately $346 | approximately 5% | approximately 2% | approximately $161.6M |
| 2025 | 1K | approximately $510 | approximately 6% | approximately 2% | approximately $224.1M |
| 2024 | 903 | approximately $412 | approximately 6% | approximately 2% | approximately $997.7M |
| 2023 | 723 | approximately $347 | approximately 10% | approximately 4% | approximately $432.8M |
| 2022 | 602 | approximately $419 | approximately 6% | approximately 3% | approximately $226M |
| 2021 | 623 | approximately $459 | approximately 7% | approximately 2% | approximately $227.8M |
| 2020 | 502 | approximately $312 | approximately 7% | approximately 3% | approximately $266.2M |
| 2019 | 263 | approximately $2.2K | approximately 14% | approximately 6% | approximately $386.8M |
| 2018 | 248 | approximately $1.5K | approximately 12% | approximately 4% | approximately $151.3M |
| 2017 | 221 | approximately $5.5K | approximately 15% | approximately 3% | approximately $85.6M |
| 2016 | 204 | approximately $19.7K | approximately 28% | approximately 9% | approximately $649.8M |
| 2015 | 167 | approximately $26K | approximately 29% | approximately 10% | approximately $217.7M |
Median beats average here: genre revenue is hit-driven, so the median shows what the typical Space launch actually earned. Recent years accumulate revenue for a while after launch.
| 3 |
| approximately $220.9M |
| 226.7K |
| 84% |
| $59.99 |
| 4 | StarfieldSteam | approximately $160.2M | 175.5K | 57% | $49.99 |
| 5 | Deep Rock GalacticSteam | approximately $134.3M | 380.3K | 97% | $29.99 |
| 6 | approximately $133.3M | 262.8K | 92% | $39.99 |
| 7 | Borderlands 4Steam | approximately $108.1M | 58.2K | 59% | $69.99 |
| 8 | StellarisSteam | approximately $76.8M | 198.9K | 85% | $14.99 |
| 9 | Oxygen Not IncludedSteam | approximately $75.5M | 144K | 97% | $24.99 |
| 10 | approximately $64.2M | 32K | 26% | $49.99 |
| 11 | ICARUSSteam | approximately $62.1M | 68.7K | 75% | $34.99 |
| 12 | Space EngineersSteam | approximately $58.6M | 134.5K | 89% | $19.99 |
| 13 | approximately $55.3M | 48.5K | 90% | $49.99 |
| 14 | Alien: IsolationSteam | approximately $54.8M | 67K | 93% | $39.99 |
| 15 | PRAGMATASteam | approximately $53.8M | 53.5K | 97% | $59.99 |
| 16 | approximately $49.2M | 43.7K | 65% | $59.99 |
| 17 | approximately $49.1M | 45.4K | 94% | $59.99 |
| 18 | Dyson Sphere ProgramSteam | approximately $47.4M | 91.8K | 97% | $19.99 |
| 19 | Elite DangerousSteam | approximately $47.1M | 82.4K | 77% | $19.99 |
| 20 | SPORE™Steam | approximately $46.2M | 72.8K | 93% | $19.99 |
| 21 | X4: FoundationsSteam | approximately $45.9M | 30.3K | 80% | $49.99 |
| 22 | approximately $44.3M | 30.2K | 62% | $59.99 |
| 23 | Outer WildsSteam | approximately $42.3M | 108.3K | 96% | $24.99 |
| 24 | Kerbal Space ProgramSteam | approximately $39.3M | 147.2K | 96% | $9.99 |
| 25 | ASTRONEERSteam | approximately $38.8M | 118.9K | 92% | $29.99 |
| 26 | approximately $38.5M | 43.3K | 79% | $39.99 |
| 27 | approximately $33.2M | 33.6K | 92% | $39.99 |
| 28 | StarboundSteam | approximately $32.9M | 123.3K | 90% | $14.99 |
| 29 | Universe SandboxSteam | approximately $32.3M | 32.3K | 96% | $29.99 |
| 30 | Among UsSteam | approximately $30.4M | 748.7K | 92% | $4.99 |
| 31 | PreySteam | approximately $29.8M | 54.7K | 91% | $29.99 |
| 32 | The Planet CrafterSteam | approximately $29.6M | 74.2K | 96% | $23.99 |
| 33 | BATTLETECHSteam | approximately $28.5M | 33.2K | 84% | $39.99 |
| 34 | approximately $27.2M | 22.4K | 89% | $34.99 |
| 35 | EVERSPACE™ 2Steam | approximately $25M | 13.1K | 86% | $49.99 |
| 36 | approximately $24.3M | 22.3K | 76% | $49.99 |
| 37 | approximately $24M | 23.2K | 61% | $39.99 |
| 38 | approximately $23.2M | 43.2K | 98% | $19.99 |
| 39 | approximately $23M | 33.4K | 79% | $29.99 |
| 40 | approximately $22.2M | 34.4K | 78% | $19.99 |
| 41 | ENDLESS Space™ 2Steam | approximately $21.3M | 23.1K | 83% | $39.99 |
| 42 | approximately $20.4M | 175.6K | 88% | $7.99 |
| 43 | IXIONSteam | approximately $19.6M | 17.8K | 79% | $34.99 |
| 44 | approximately $19M | 18.1K | 91% | $59.99 |
| 45 | The Outer Worlds 2Steam | approximately $18.2M | 8.9K | 74% | $69.99 |
| 46 | Aliens: Dark DescentSteam | approximately $17.6M | 18.9K | 88% | $39.99 |
| 47 | Dead SpaceSteam | approximately $16.7M | 71.2K | 91% | $14.99 |
| 48 | approximately $16.6M | 14.2K | 88% | $34.99 |
| 49 | AwesomenautsSteam | approximately $16.5M | 26.9K | 85% | $19.99 |
| 50 | approximately $16M | 8.8K | 84% | $49.99 |