How much revenue did Chaotic Airport Construction Manager make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Chaotic Airport Construction Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Chaotic Airport Construction Manager sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 260 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before the cut; from 260 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 Chaotic Airport Construction Manager out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Chaotic Airport Construction Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 71k–89k

best case 156k (WHAT THE GOLF?)

Games like Chaotic Airport Construction Manager

The middle of these games

≈ 71k–89k copies

≈ $95k–$691k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Comedy (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: WHAT THE GOLF? at ≈ 119k–193k copies, ≈ $652k–$1.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 366 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 170 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Comedy (4 of 8) and Memes (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Memes + Comedy, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Physics + Cute + Action-Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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 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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