How much revenue did Aviassembly make?

$639k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aviassembly sell?

Q: How many copies did Aviassembly sell?

233k to 378k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 233k–378k; $639k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.6M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Aviassembly out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Aviassembly's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 860k–1.9M

best case 4.0M (Scrap Mechanic)

Games like Aviassembly

The middle of these games

≈ 860k–1.9M copies

≈ $3.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: Scrap Mechanic at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $24.2M–$65.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 31k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 563 to 122k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Building (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Sandbox, priced around $29.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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