How much revenue did Blue Max: Aces of the Great War make?

$190–$512 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blue Max: Aces of the Great War sell?

Q: How many copies did Blue Max: Aces of the Great War sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $190–$512 after Steam's cut $346–$788 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Blue Max: Aces of the Great War and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blue Max: Aces of the Great War's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–46k

best case 362k (Nuclear Option)

Games like Blue Max: Aces of the Great War

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–46k copies

≈ $4k–$193k after Steam's cut

from ~337 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: Nuclear Option at ≈ 276k–448k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 489 reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Military (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2024, 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 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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