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How many copies did aerofly RC 10 - RC Flight Simulator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$113k–$303k after Steam's cut $205k–$465k before Steam's cut
from 165 reviews (Mostly 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 aerofly RC 10 - RC Flight Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including aerofly RC 10 - RC Flight Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 617k–2.1M
best case 2.4M (Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition)
Games like aerofly RC 10 - RC Flight Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 617k–2.1M copies

≈ $6.1M–$19.4M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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.

Best case: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.9M–$80.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 175 to 73k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Realistic (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $60.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2008 to 2026, 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 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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Est. copies
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SteamSpy 200k–500k
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SimulationFlight
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Est. copies
≈ 1.8M–2.9M
3.4x vs typical
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SteamSpy 100k–200k
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition
2014
Est. copies
≈ 1.5M–2.4M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
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$24.99
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