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How big is Rise of Flight United?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 173k–281k
from 3k 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 Rise of Flight United and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rise of Flight United's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–9.7M
best case 65.2M (War Thunder)
Games like Rise of Flight United

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–9.7M copies

≈ $14.6M–$39.3M after Steam's cut

from ~60k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Flight (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 31k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 32k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Flight (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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SteamSpy 5M–10M
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Est. copies
≈ 1.5M–2.4M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$8.2M–$22.0M after Steam's cut $14.8M–$33.8M before Steam's cut
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SandboxDestruction
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Est. copies
≈ 1.5M–2.4M
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$10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.5M before Steam's cut
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SandboxBase-Building
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≈ 20.5M–33.4M
7.0x vs typical
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SimulationDriving
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≈ 3.0M–4.9M
1.7x vs typical
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$25.0M–$67.2M after Steam's cut $45.5M–$103.4M before Steam's cut
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RacingOpen World
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Est. copies
≈ 49.7M–80.7M
13x vs typical
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Est. copies
≈ 1.1M–1.8M
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Est. copies
≈ 1.3M–2.1M
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$5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut
$14.99
53k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
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