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How many copies did An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–12k
$40k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$167k before the cut
from 297 reviews (Very Positive)

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

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We left An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–276k
best case 665k (Montaro)
Games like An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–276k copies

≈ $117k–$638k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Montaro at ≈ 507k–823k copies, ≈ $138k–$371k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 135 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42 to 601.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Dog (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Memes + Anime, priced around $1.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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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