How much revenue did Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 make?

$10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sell?

Q: How many copies did Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sell?

562k to 913k copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 562k–913k; $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut $19.7M–$44.7M before Steam's cut; from 23k 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 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.2M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies

≈ $19.3M–$49.9M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, 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 79 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
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $29.9M–$80.5M after Steam's cut $54.4M–$123.8M before Steam's cut	$59.99	73k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationFlight
Transport Fever 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 950k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut $19.0M–$43.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	33k reviews Very Positive	SimulationStrategy
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut $49.2M–$111.9M before Steam's cut	$59.99	57k reviews Very Positive	FlightJet
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
The Crew™ 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.0M–$67.2M after Steam's cut $45.5M–$103.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	100k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingOpen World
DCS World Steam Edition 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	41k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFlight
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.5M–33.4M 8.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut $256.7M–$584.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.2M–$27.5M after Steam's cut $18.6M–$42.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	27k reviews Very Positive	FlightSimulation