How much revenue did Puffin Planes make?

$29k–$78k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Puffin Planes sell?

Q: How many copies did Puffin Planes sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 353 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $29k–$78k after Steam's cut $52k–$119k before the cut; from 353 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 Puffin Planes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Puffin Planes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 309–5k

best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)

Games like Puffin Planes

The middle of these games

≈ 309–5k copies

≈ $1k–$20k after Steam's cut

from ~74 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: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 460.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (7 of 8) and Time Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Space + Action + Family Friendly; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 36 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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