How much revenue did SimAirport make?

$690k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SimAirport sell?

Q: How many copies did SimAirport sell?

100k to 163k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 100k–163k; $690k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 SimAirport and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SimAirport's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 919k–3.2M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like SimAirport

A typical game among these

≈ 919k–3.2M copies

≈ $10.6M–$59.7M after Steam's cut

from ~64k 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 25k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 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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Cities: Skylines II 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $31.5M–$84.7M after Steam's cut $57.3M–$130.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	92k reviews Mixed	City Builder Simulation
Two Point Hospital 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.8M–$23.6M after Steam's cut $16.0M–$36.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	35k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Management
Cities: Skylines 2015	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.1M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut $213.1M–$484.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	291k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation
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