How much revenue did Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing make?

$2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing sell?

Q: How many copies did Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing sell?

429k to 697k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 429k–697k; $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before Steam's cut; from 14k 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 Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 457k–2.5M

best case 27.0M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing

A typical game among these

≈ 457k–2.5M copies

≈ $1.9M–$22.8M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.5M–33.4M copies, ≈ $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (5 of 8) and Physics (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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