How much revenue did Airships: Conquer the Skies make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Airships: Conquer the Skies sell?

Q: How many copies did Airships: Conquer the Skies sell?

201k to 327k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 201k–327k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut; from 7k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Airships: Conquer the Skies and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airships: Conquer the Skies's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–15.7M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Airships: Conquer the Skies

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–15.7M copies

≈ $7.7M–$245.8M after Steam's cut

from ~153k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 4X (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4X (2 of 8) and FPS (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2026, 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 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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Pirate Patrol 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$4.99	50 reviews Mixed	Early AccessAction RPG
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
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