How much revenue did Frontier Pilot Simulator make?

$163k–$438k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Frontier Pilot Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Frontier Pilot Simulator sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 956 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $163k–$438k after Steam's cut $296k–$674k before Steam's cut; from 956 reviews (Mixed)

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 Frontier Pilot Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Frontier Pilot Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 420k–757k

best case 3.3M (EVE Online)

Games like Frontier Pilot Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 420k–757k copies

≈ $3.9M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: EVE Online at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (7 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Open World.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2022, 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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