How much revenue did Superflight make?

$328k–$881k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Superflight sell?

Q: How many copies did Superflight sell?

399k to 648k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 399k–648k; $328k–$881k after Steam's cut $596k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 Superflight and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Superflight's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 523k–1.1M

best case 1.7M (Besiege)

Games like Superflight

A typical game among these

≈ 523k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.2M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Flight (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Besiege at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2020, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox
The Plan 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
Race The Sun 2013	Est. copies ≈ 402k–653k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Procedural GenerationRunner
AER Memories of Old 2017	Est. copies ≈ 266k–433k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	AdventureExploration
SpaceEngine 2019	Est. copies ≈ 480k–779k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.6M after Steam's cut $7.2M–$16.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Early AccessOpen World
A Short Hike 2019	Est. copies ≈ 661k–1.1M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before Steam's cut	$7.99	23k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExplorationRelaxing
Transport Fever 2016	Est. copies ≈ 452k–734k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$10.0M after Steam's cut $6.8M–$15.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FlightCity Builder
Learn to Fly 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 390k–633k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayCasual