How much revenue did Project Wingman make?

$3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Wingman sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Wingman sell?

556k to 904k copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 556k–904k; $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.8M before Steam's cut; from 22k 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 Project Wingman and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Wingman's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 338k–1.1M

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

Games like Project Wingman

A typical game among these

≈ 338k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.9M–$14.3M 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: ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN at ≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies, ≈ $27.1M–$72.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (7 of 8) and Military (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2023, 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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