How much revenue did V-Air Traffic Control make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did V-Air Traffic Control sell?

Q: How many copies did V-Air Traffic Control sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 37 reviews (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 V-Air Traffic Control and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including V-Air Traffic Control's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–11k

best case 272k (Airport CEO)

Games like V-Air Traffic Control

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–11k copies

≈ $7k–$62k after Steam's cut

from ~117 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Airport CEO at ≈ 207k–337k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 4k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Immersive Sim (8 of 8) and Flight (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Resource Management, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Air Traffic: Greenlight 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $20k–$45k before Steam's cut	$7.99	201 reviews Very Positive	Time ManagementFlight
ATC Flight Operator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut	$9.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	SimulationFlight
Endless ATC 2017	Est. copies ≈ 18k–30k 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $40k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$167k before Steam's cut	$7.99	535 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FlightManagement
Hazeron Starship 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before Steam's cut	$19.99	104 reviews Very Positive	ExplorationFPS
Airport CEO 2021	Est. copies ≈ 207k–337k 72x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	FlightResource Management
FireJumpers Inferno 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	78 reviews Mixed	Grand StrategyFlight
Flight Catastrophe 2025	Est. copies ≈ 570–927 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$7.99	23 reviews Negative	ActionSimulation
sim4D ATC 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	129 reviews Mixed	SimulationRPG