How many copies did Drone Wars sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 116 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Drone Wars make?

Drone Wars is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Drone Wars?

Estimated owners: ≈ 3k–5k; from 116 reviews (Very Positive)

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 Drone Wars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drone Wars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 568k–1.2M

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

Games like Drone Wars

The middle of these games

≈ 568k–1.2M copies

≈ $7.0M–$14.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

All 8 of your 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 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (5 of 8) and Flight (4 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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EVERSPACE™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 394k–641k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$9.0M before the cut	$19.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceAction Roguelike
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.9M–$72.2M after Steam's cut $48.8M–$111.1M before the cut	$59.99	57k reviews Very Positive	FlightJet
STAR WARS™: Squadrons 2020	Est. copies ≈ 698k–1.1M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.8M before the cut	$39.99	28k reviews Mixed	FlightSpace
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EVERSPACE™ 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 322k–523k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.4M–$11.9M after Steam's cut $8.0M–$18.3M before the cut	$49.99	13k reviews Very Positive	ShooterSpace
Project Wingman 2020	Est. copies ≈ 549k–893k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.6M before the cut	$24.99	22k reviews Very Positive	FlightAction
Star Conflict 2013	Est. copies ≈ 962k–1.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpFree to Play
House of the Dying Sun 2016	Est. copies ≈ 85k–138k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $468k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $851k–$1.9M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionSimulation