How much revenue did Puffin Planes make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Puffin Planes sell?

Q: How many copies did Puffin Planes sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 358 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $53k–$121k before Steam's cut; from 358 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 Puffin Planes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Puffin Planes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342–18k

best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)

Games like Puffin Planes

A typical game among these

≈ 342–18k copies

≈ $1k–$66k after Steam's cut

from ~87 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 460.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (7 of 8) and Time Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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