Starbound
Short description
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
- Developer
- Chucklefish
- Publisher
- Chucklefish
- Release
- Fri, Jul 22, 2016
- Price
- $14.99
- Reviews
- 87,402
- Positive
- 90%
- Followers
- 262,226
- Owners (estimated)
- 2M – 5M
- Concurrent players
- 894
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG
- Features
- Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Online Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by the $14.99 launch price — there is not enough price history for this game to weight the copies by what they actually sold for. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
70 data points since Jul 31, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 290 further data points reach back to Nov 1, 2013 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $3.74 on Aug 1, 2022.
Similar games that found an audience
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| Image | Name | Studio | Shared | Tag difference | Price | Reviews | Positive | Released | Revenue (estimated) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Don't Starve | Klei Entertainment 17 titles | 5 | − Space + Indie | $9.99 | 97,177 | 96% | Tue, Apr 23, 2013 | $43.7m $20m – $50m |
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Signs of Life | Sweet Dog Studios first game | 5 | − Space + RPG | $9.99 | 709 | 76% | Mon, Jan 27, 2014 | $484k $484k – $549k |
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Terraria | Re-Logic 2 titles | 4 | − Space − Crafting + 2D + Multiplayer | $9.99 | 1,246,567 | 98% | Mon, May 16, 2011 | $464m $231m – $464m |
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The Forest | Endnight Games Ltd 2 titles | 4 | − Sandbox − Space + Open World + Horror | $19.99 | 583,551 | 96% | Mon, Apr 30, 2018 | $456m $347m – $811m |
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Space Engineers | Keen Software House 5 titles | 4 | − Adventure − Crafting + Building + Multiplayer | $19.99 | 100,656 | 90% | Thu, Feb 28, 2019 | $90.5m $40.2m – $100m |
There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.