How much revenue did Aero Battle make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aero Battle sell?

Q: How many copies did Aero Battle 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; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut; from 20 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–54k

best case 417k (FPV Kamikaze Drone)

Games like Aero Battle

The middle of these games

≈ 163–54k copies

≈ $535–$132k after Steam's cut

from ~181 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FPV Kamikaze Drone at ≈ 318k–516k copies, ≈ $523k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 847 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + War, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 52 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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