How much revenue did Airborne Empire make?

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

How many copies did Airborne Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did Airborne Empire sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 931 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $190k–$512k after Steam's cut $346k–$788k before the cut; from 931 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Airborne Empire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airborne Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–119k

best case 388k (Ultimate General: Civil War)

Games like Airborne Empire

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–119k copies

≈ $65k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~561 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ultimate General: Civil War at ≈ 296k–480k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 153 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 26 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Colony Sim (5 of 8) and Wargame (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Real Time Tactics, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 of your 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).

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