How much revenue did Airships: Lost Flotilla make?

$19k–$51k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Airships: Lost Flotilla sell?

Q: How many copies did Airships: Lost Flotilla sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 311 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $19k–$51k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before Steam's cut; from 311 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 Airships: Lost Flotilla and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airships: Lost Flotilla's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–27k

best case 877k (Soulstone Survivors)

Games like Airships: Lost Flotilla

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–27k copies

≈ $27k–$83k after Steam's cut

from ~531 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: Soulstone Survivors at ≈ 668k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 180 reviews in their first month; the range was 36 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Arcade (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Early Access + Top-Down + Rogue-lite; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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Soulstone Survivors 2025	Est. copies ≈ 668k–1.1M 51x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
UBERMOSH:BLACK 2016	Est. copies ≈ 90k–147k 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $124k–$333k after Steam's cut $225k–$513k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionIndie
Devious Dungeon 2019	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $26k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$109k before Steam's cut	$7.99	416 reviews Very Positive	Action Roguelike2D Platformer
Super Psycho Baseball 2025	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before Steam's cut	$4.99	249 reviews Very Positive	SportsBaseball
Slay the Minotaur 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5k–9k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut	$4.99	220 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeHack and Slash
An Ankou 2023	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before Steam's cut	$4.99	618 reviews Mixed	ExplorationRogue-like
Paper Planet 2023	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $54k–$146k after Steam's cut $99k–$225k before Steam's cut	$14.99	531 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeTower Defense
Cursorblade 2023	Est. copies ≈ 26k–42k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $65k–$147k before Steam's cut	$4.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell