How much revenue did Flight Risk make?

$115–$309 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flight Risk sell?

Q: How many copies did Flight Risk sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $115–$309 after Steam's cut $209–$475 before Steam's cut; from 17 reviews (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 Flight Risk and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flight Risk's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 553k–689k

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like Flight Risk

A typical game among these

≈ 553k–689k copies

≈ $3.3M–$4.7M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 981k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Mystery (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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