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How many copies did Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 15k–25k
$126k–$339k after Steam's cut $229k–$521k before Steam's cut
from 367 reviews (Mixed)

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 Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 208k–719k
best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)
Games like Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 208k–719k copies

≈ $2.7M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: X4: Foundations at ≈ 920k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.7M–$34.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 800 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Flight (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Space Sim + Simulation, priced around $50.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 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 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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