How much revenue did Vortex make?

$122–$329 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vortex sell?

Q: How many copies did Vortex sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $122–$329 after Steam's cut $222–$506 before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 536k–1.4M

best case 2.1M (ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN)

Games like Vortex

The middle of these games

≈ 536k–1.4M copies

≈ $4.8M–$28.2M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 189 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (8 of 8) and Military (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Flight + Jet, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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