How much revenue did Airport X-Ray Simulator make?

$24k–$66k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Airport X-Ray Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Airport X-Ray Simulator sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 276 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $24k–$66k after Steam's cut $44k–$101k before the cut; from 276 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 Airport X-Ray Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airport X-Ray Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–8.2M

best case 10.2M (Schedule I)

Games like Airport X-Ray Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 5.4M–8.2M copies

≈ $53.3M–$85.0M after Steam's cut

from ~193k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.9M–$115.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 119k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 43k to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (5 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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