How much revenue did SimplePlanes VR make?

$13k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SimplePlanes VR sell?

Q: How many copies did SimplePlanes VR sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 198 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $25k–$56k before the cut; from 198 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 SimplePlanes VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SimplePlanes VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 866k–2.1M

best case 2.4M (Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition)

Games like SimplePlanes VR

The middle of these games

≈ 866k–2.1M copies

≈ $8.8M–$16.5M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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.

Best case: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.8M–$80.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 847 to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2026, 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 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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