How much revenue did Red Wings: Aces of the Sky make?

$108k–$290k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Wings: Aces of the Sky sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Wings: Aces of the Sky sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 792 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $108k–$290k after Steam's cut $196k–$447k before Steam's cut; from 792 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Red Wings: Aces of the Sky and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Wings: Aces of the Sky's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 173k–863k

best case 2.2M (ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN)

Games like Red Wings: Aces of the Sky

A typical game among these

≈ 173k–863k copies

≈ $579k–$8.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN at ≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies, ≈ $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (6 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut $49.2M–$111.9M before Steam's cut	$59.99	57k reviews Very Positive	FlightJet
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