How much revenue did Red Wings: Aces of the Sky make?

$108k–$290k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Red Wings: Aces of the Sky sell?

Q: How many copies did Red Wings: Aces of the Sky sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 792 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $108k–$290k after Steam's cut $196k–$447k before the cut; from 792 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Red Wings: Aces of the Sky out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Wings: Aces of the Sky's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 172k–857k

best case 2.1M (ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN)

Games like Red Wings: Aces of the Sky

The middle of these games

≈ 172k–857k copies

≈ $578k–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (6 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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