How much revenue did Vortex make?

$122–$329 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vortex sell?

Q: How many copies did Vortex sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $122–$329 after Steam's cut $222–$506 before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 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 Vortex and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vortex's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 546k–1.4M

best case 2.2M (ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN)

Games like Vortex

A typical game among these

≈ 546k–1.4M copies

≈ $4.9M–$28.5M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN at ≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies, ≈ $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 189 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Military (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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