How much revenue did IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad make?

$7.6M–$20.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad sell?

Q: How many copies did IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad sell?

555k to 902k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 555k–902k; $7.6M–$20.5M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut; from 10k reviews (Mostly 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 IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.1M

best case 64.7M (War Thunder)

Games like IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–3.1M copies

≈ $19.0M–$49.5M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Physics + Destruction + Vehicular Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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