How much revenue did Airport X-Ray Simulator make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Airport X-Ray Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Airport X-Ray Simulator sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 281 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before Steam's cut; from 281 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 Airport X-Ray Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airport X-Ray Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–8.2M

best case 10.4M (Schedule I)

Games like Airport X-Ray Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 5.4M–8.2M copies

≈ $53.7M–$86.0M after Steam's cut

from ~194k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies, ≈ $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 119k reviews in their first month; the range was 43k to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (5 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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