How much revenue did IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition make?

$168k–$453k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition sell?

61k to 100k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 61k–100k; $168k–$453k after Steam's cut $306k–$697k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 87k–224k

best case 702k (Bomber Crew)

Games like IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Blitz Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 87k–224k copies

≈ $541k–$867k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bomber Crew at ≈ 535k–869k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 World War II + Simulation, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Management + War + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2019, 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 36 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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