How much revenue did AFTERBURN make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AFTERBURN sell?

Q: How many copies did AFTERBURN sell?

10k to 15k copies, based on its 330 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–15k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$108k before Steam's cut; from 330 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 AFTERBURN and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AFTERBURN's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 859k–1.6M

best case 2.2M (ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN)

Games like AFTERBURN

A typical game among these

≈ 859k–1.6M copies

≈ $9.2M–$30.7M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN at ≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies, ≈ $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 3k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Jet (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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VTOL VR 2017	Est. copies ≈ 752k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut $11.3M–$25.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FlightVR
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut $49.2M–$111.9M before Steam's cut	$59.99	57k reviews Very Positive	FlightJet
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