How much revenue did Aero Battle make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aero Battle sell?

Q: How many copies did Aero Battle 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; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 20 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–54k

best case 425k (FPV Kamikaze Drone)

Games like Aero Battle

A typical game among these

≈ 163–54k copies

≈ $535–$132k after Steam's cut

from ~188 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FPV Kamikaze Drone at ≈ 323k–526k copies, ≈ $533k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 846 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + War, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 52 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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