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How many copies did An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–12k
$40k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$167k before Steam's cut
from 297 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 An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–276k
best case 665k (Montaro)
Games like An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–276k copies

≈ $118k–$646k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Montaro at ≈ 506k–823k copies, ≈ $138k–$371k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 134 reviews in their first month; the range was 42 to 600.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share FPS (4 of 8) and Dog (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Memes + Anime, priced around $1.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 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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