How much revenue did Masters of the Air make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Masters of the Air sell?

Q: How many copies did Masters of the Air 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; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 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 Masters of the Air and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Masters of the Air's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–362k

best case 362k (Nuclear Option)

Games like Masters of the Air

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–362k copies

≈ $1.6M–$8.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nuclear Option at ≈ 276k–448k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 545 reviews in their first month; the range was 318 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Military (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Simulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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