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How many copies did Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 15k–25k
$126k–$339k after Steam's cut $229k–$521k before the cut
from 367 reviews (Mixed)

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 Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 204k–710k
best case 1.2M (X4: Foundations)
Games like Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 204k–710k copies

≈ $2.7M–$9.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: X4: Foundations at ≈ 911k–1.5M copies, ≈ $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 800 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Flight (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Space Sim + Simulation, priced around $50.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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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