How much revenue did Drone Fire make?

$41–$111 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Drone Fire sell?

Q: How many copies did Drone Fire sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $41–$111 after Steam's cut $75–$170 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Drone Fire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drone Fire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 342–1k

best case 5k (?? Movie Theater)

Games like Drone Fire

A typical game among these

≈ 342–1k copies

≈ $968–$75k after Steam's cut

from ~17 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ?? Movie Theater at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $5k–$14k 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 9 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 76.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Walking Simulator + 3D Platformer, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Walking Simulator + 3D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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