How much revenue did Airborne Empire make?

$194k–$521k 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?

24k to 38k copies, based on its 948 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–38k; $194k–$521k after Steam's cut $353k–$802k before Steam's cut; from 948 reviews (Very 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 Airborne Empire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airborne Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–119k

best case 389k (Ultimate General: Civil War)

Games like Airborne Empire

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–119k copies

≈ $65k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~567 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: Ultimate General: Civil War at ≈ 296k–481k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Colony Sim (5 of 8) and Wargame (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Wargame + Real Time Tactics, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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