How much revenue did Drone Strike: Engineer Simulator make?

$130–$349 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Drone Strike: Engineer Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Drone Strike: Engineer Simulator sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $130–$349 after Steam's cut $236–$537 before the cut; from 16 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 Drone Strike: Engineer Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drone Strike: Engineer Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 175k–546k

best case 4.0M (The Crew™ 2)

Games like Drone Strike: Engineer Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 175k–546k copies

≈ $1.0M–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Crew™ 2 at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $25.0M–$67.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 175.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (8 of 8) and Racing (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $30.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 43 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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Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing 2018	Est. copies ≈ 422k–686k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before the cut	$19.99	14k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationFlight
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