How much revenue did Fly Corp make?

$350k–$941k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fly Corp sell?

Q: How many copies did Fly Corp sell?

85k to 138k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 85k–138k; $350k–$941k after Steam's cut $636k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Fly Corp and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fly Corp's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–524k

best case 1.2M (Transport Fever 2)

Games like Fly Corp

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–524k copies

≈ $54k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Transport Fever 2 at ≈ 950k–1.5M copies, ≈ $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 147 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (8 of 8) and Time Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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