How much revenue did DOMINATING THE SKIES make?

$135–$363 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DOMINATING THE SKIES sell?

Q: How many copies did DOMINATING THE SKIES sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $135–$363 after Steam's cut $246–$559 before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (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 DOMINATING THE SKIES and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOMINATING THE SKIES's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 195k–305k

best case 7.2M (This War of Mine)

Games like DOMINATING THE SKIES

A typical game among these

≈ 195k–305k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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 Simulation (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: This War of Mine at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $30.1M–$81.0M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 583 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + Mechs, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Robots + Mechs + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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