How much revenue did DOMINATING THE SKIES make?

$135–$363 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DOMINATING THE SKIES sell?

Q: How many copies did DOMINATING THE SKIES sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $135–$363 after Steam's cut $246–$559 before the cut; from 20 reviews (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 DOMINATING THE SKIES out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DOMINATING THE SKIES's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 194k–301k

best case 7.2M (This War of Mine)

Games like DOMINATING THE SKIES

The middle of these games

≈ 194k–301k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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 Simulation (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: This War of Mine at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies, ≈ $30.0M–$80.8M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 585 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and FPS (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Robots + Mechs, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Robots + Mechs + Free to Play; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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