How much revenue did Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 132 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before Steam's cut; from 132 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 Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–380k

best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)

Games like Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR

A typical game among these

≈ 38k–380k copies

≈ $481k–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: X4: Foundations at ≈ 920k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 196 reviews in their first month; the range was 65 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Simulation, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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