How many copies did Drone Wars sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 117 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Drone Wars make?

Drone Wars is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Drone Wars?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 3k–5k; from 117 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Drone Wars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drone Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 571k–1.2M

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

Games like Drone Wars

A typical game among these

≈ 571k–1.2M copies

≈ $7.0M–$14.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

All 8 of the 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 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (5 of 8) and Flight (4 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
EVERSPACE™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 395k–642k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceAction Roguelike
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M 3.0x 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
STAR WARS™: Squadrons 2020	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	28k reviews Mixed	FlightSpace
Galaxy on Fire 2™ Full HD 2012	Est. copies ≈ 143k–232k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $314k–$843k after Steam's cut $570k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$7.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceThird-Person Shooter
EVERSPACE™ 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 326k–529k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.5M before Steam's cut	$49.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ShooterSpace
Project Wingman 2020	Est. copies ≈ 556k–904k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	22k reviews Very Positive	FlightAction
Star Conflict 2013	Est. copies ≈ 963k–1.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play
House of the Dying Sun 2016	Est. copies ≈ 85k–139k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $470k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $854k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionSimulation