How much revenue did Chaotic Airport Construction Manager make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chaotic Airport Construction Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Chaotic Airport Construction Manager sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 259 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$58k before Steam's cut; from 259 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 Chaotic Airport Construction Manager and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chaotic Airport Construction Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–90k

best case 156k (WHAT THE GOLF?)

Games like Chaotic Airport Construction Manager

A typical game among these

≈ 72k–90k copies

≈ $96k–$633k 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Comedy (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: WHAT THE GOLF? at ≈ 119k–194k copies, ≈ $655k–$1.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 365 reviews in their first month; the range was 170 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (4 of 8) and Memes (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Memes + Comedy, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Physics + Cute + Action-Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 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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MEMOLOGY: GOYDA 2024	Est. copies ≈ 56k–91k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $31k–$83k after Steam's cut $56k–$127k before Steam's cut	$1.99	2k reviews Very Positive	MemesParody
Stick RPG 2: Director's Cut 2014	Est. copies ≈ 63k–103k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $348k–$935k after Steam's cut $632k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Very Positive	RPGSimulation
I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling 2017	Est. copies ≈ 57k–93k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$65k before Steam's cut	$0.99	2k reviews Very Positive	LootMemes
Tropico 3 2009	Est. copies ≈ 123k–200k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $339k–$911k after Steam's cut $616k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy
The Magic Circle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 73k–119k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $403k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $733k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	AdventurePuzzle
WHAT THE GOLF? 2020	Est. copies ≈ 119k–194k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $655k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	MemesComedy
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