Cloud Imperium Games Records $155.1 Million In Cash Shop Sales For 2025

According to the player-run CCU Game funding dashboard, Cloud Imperium Games has earned $929.1 million in sales through its cash shop at Roberts Space Industries from October 2012 through the end of last year. For 2025, the company recorded $155.1 million, a 33% increase from 2024's total of $116.7 million.

The $929.1 million displayed on the Roberts Space Industries funding page at the end of December was not a comprehensive accounting for all of CIG's revenue since the project's Kickstarter in October 2012. Overall, the company has recorded $1.053 billion in confirmed revenue (the funding page & the 2023 financial report).

• Sales/Pledges: $929.1 million (through 31 December 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 $1.122 billion, or $1.115 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.

The streak is over - December marked the first time in 12 months cash shop sales did not experience increased year-over year (YoY) sales. CIG "only" brought in $14.7 million in sales in December, the second-highest total in the company's history. The highest was the $18.7 million in sales in December 2024, resulting in a YoY decline of 21.2%. The longest streak of YoY sales increases occurred for 13 months, from September 2021 through September 2022.

A major reason for the decrease was the calendar shifting one day of the Intergalactic Aerospace Expo (IAE), Star Citizen's biggest cash shop event, from December to November. The other reason is that a ship sale that occurred in the middle of December 2024 was not repeated in 2025. Instead, less popular (and less expensive) items were sold instead.

Record 4th quarter sales - Despite the lower YoY December sales, the 4th quarter of 2025 set a record with the largest turnover in the company's history. The $58.6 million in cash shop sales was $7.1 million greater than the previous record of $51.5 million set in Q4 2023.

Record sales events - A major driver of revenue in the fourth quarter was the IAE. In 2025 the event brought in $34.8 million over 14 days, an increase of $10.6 million over sales in 2024 and $10.3 million over 2023. May's Invictus event, traditionally CIG's second largest sales event, brought in $24.2 million in 2025, a $4.9 million increase over 2024. The year-over-year increase in sales during those two events accounted for slightly over 40% of the increased cash shop sales in 2025.

New account creation bounces back - After two years of declines, new user account creation increased by 46.6% in 2025, up to almost 710,000. 

December was typical of new user creation since the institution of a new recruitment program 6 months ago. The 84,288 new accounts created in December represented a 83.5% increase over the number created in December 2024.

A lot of players (and content creators) are looking at the increase in new account creation as a major surge in interest in Star Citizen. The total number in the fourth quarter fuels the argument. The 265,264

accounts created in the last three months of 2025 was a 91.9% increase over the same period in 2024.

What to watch for - CIG's 2025 growth in cash shop sales promises to put the company back into profitability after 2023's loss of $20 million and assumed losses in 2024. Hopefully the 2024 financial report appears on the Cloud Imperium website in the next week or two so we can see other important information such as subscription revenue, other types of revenue as well as overall spending. Cloud Imperium has a history of spending more that the company brings. We won't know all the information about 2025 until CIG releases its annual financial report in December 2026 or January 2027. The 2024 report is the first bit of information the public will receive on how the company truly performed financially in 2025.