How much revenue did VTOL VR make?

$6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did VTOL VR sell?

Q: How many copies did VTOL VR sell?

752k to 1.2M copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 752k–1.2M; $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut $11.3M–$25.7M before Steam's cut; from 22k 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 VTOL VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including VTOL VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–84k

best case 2.4M (Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition)

Games like VTOL VR

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–84k copies

≈ $91k–$211k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.9M–$80.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 167 to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Realistic + Open World + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2026, 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 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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