Cloud Imperium Games sales began to return to Earth in October. According to the CCU Game dashboard, the CIG online cash shop recorded a few dollars shy of $12 million last month, a year-over-year increase of 29.3% over 2024's total of $9.3 million. The amount also was 13.1% higher than that three-year average sales of $10.6 million from 2022 to 2024. Through the first 10 months CIG has generated $108.5 million in sales, a 39.6% increase over the same period in 2024.
The $882.5 million displayed on the Roberts Space Industries funding page at the end of October was not a comprehensive accounting for all of CIG's revenue since the project's Kickstarter in October 2012. Overall, the company has recorded $1.007 billion in confirmed revenue (the funding page & the 2023 financial report).
- Sales/Pledges: $882.5 million (through 31 October 2025)
- Other cash shop revenue: $2.3 million (through 31 December 2023)
- Subscriptions: $39.5 million (through 31 December 2023)
- All other sources: $82.6 million (through 31 December 2023)
In addition, the company has received a total of $68.25 million in outside investment. According to the 2023 financial report, $4.8 million of the amount was returned to investors in 2020 and another $1.9 million in 2023. Including the outside investment money, the total amount raised by CIG to create Squadron 42 and Star Citizen is $1.075 billion, or $1.068 billion when excluding the returned funds. An additional $12.6 million in loans issued in March 2025 and due for repayment on 31 December 2027 are not included in the total.
New Accounts - October was the 13th anniversary of the Kickstarter campaign. The 53,640 new accounts created last night was a 71.9% increase over the 33,070 created in October 2024. For the year, CIG has issued 498,150 accounts, an increase of 32.1% over the first 10 months of 2024.
Over $1 Billion! - In October CIG went over $1 billion in revenue as counted from official Cloud Imperium sources. At this point the news is a little anti-climatic as the total does not include a lot of revenue generated between the end of 2023 and now. But I can now easily justify the total of $1 billion in revenue generated.
Not a record CitizenCon - CitizenCon this year was basically a 2+ hour experience designed to hype up the player base. The CCU Game dashboard keeps track of a 6-day period to determine cash shop sales associated with the event. While the $5.3 million in revenue generated exceeded 2024's by 24%, the total was still 3.8% less than the record of $5.6 million in 2023.
Upcoming milestones - In November CIG should experience three major milestones. First, cash shop sales should exceed $900 million for CIG's history sometime next month. CIG needs to reach $18.5 million in sales during a month featuring the Interglactic Aerospace Expo. Over the past three years the average sales in October have been $23.9 million.
Next up is a new account milestone. CIG ended October with 5,988,235 accounts. Unless the servers dies for a few weeks the account counter will reach 6 million sometime this month. The last time CIG failed to generate 12,000 new accounts was September 2019.
Finally, the company will surpass the previous high year for cash shop sales sometime in the next few weeks. Sales only need to reach $9 million for the month to break 2023's record of $117.6 million.
What to watch for - Will cash shop revenue hit $150 million in 2025? Currently CIG is shy by $41.5 million. In the last two months of 2024 CIG experienced $39 million in sales. A good chance exists CIG hits the $150 million threshold, especially with CIG introducing the Nyx system in a patch right before the IAE begins.
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