How much revenue did RealFlight Trainer Edition make?

$146k–$393k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did RealFlight Trainer Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did RealFlight Trainer Edition sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 536 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $146k–$393k after Steam's cut $266k–$605k before the cut; from 536 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 RealFlight Trainer Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RealFlight Trainer Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–207k

best case 915k (X-Plane 11)

Games like RealFlight Trainer Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–207k copies

≈ $45k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~841 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: X-Plane 11 at ≈ 697k–1.1M copies, ≈ $5.7M–$15.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Flight (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 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 43 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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