How much revenue did ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN make?

$27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN sell?

Q: How many copies did ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN sell?

1.6M to 2.7M copies, based on its 57k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.7M; $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut $49.2M–$111.9M before Steam's cut; from 57k reviews (Very 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 ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 254k–731k

best case 730k (Project Wingman)

Games like ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN

A typical game among these

≈ 254k–731k copies

≈ $1.9M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Project Wingman at ≈ 556k–904k copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 681 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 Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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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