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

$26.9M–$72.4M 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; $26.9M–$72.4M after Steam's cut $48.9M–$111.4M before the cut; from 57k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 253k–725k

best case 723k (Project Wingman)

Games like ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN

The middle of these games

≈ 253k–725k copies

≈ $1.9M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Project Wingman at ≈ 551k–896k copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 681 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 318 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared 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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