How much revenue did FPV Kamikaze Drone make?

$533k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FPV Kamikaze Drone sell?

Q: How many copies did FPV Kamikaze Drone sell?

323k to 526k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 323k–526k; $533k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $969k–$2.2M before Steam's cut; from 13k 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 FPV Kamikaze Drone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FPV Kamikaze Drone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.7M–19.8M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like FPV Kamikaze Drone

A typical game among these

≈ 9.7M–19.8M copies

≈ $122.6M–$284.2M after Steam's cut

from ~296k 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 Shooter (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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (4 of 8) and War (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2004 to 2022, 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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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
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