How much revenue did Flight Risk make?

$115–$309 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flight Risk sell?

Q: How many copies did Flight Risk sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $115–$309 after Steam's cut $209–$475 before the cut; from 17 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 Flight Risk out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flight Risk's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 548k–683k

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like Flight Risk

The middle of these games

≈ 548k–683k copies

≈ $3.3M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 976k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Mystery (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 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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