How much revenue did Drone Swarm make?

$40k–$107k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Drone Swarm sell?

Q: How many copies did Drone Swarm sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 344 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $40k–$107k after Steam's cut $72k–$165k before the cut; from 344 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 Drone Swarm out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drone Swarm's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–19k

best case 608k (Aliens: Dark Descent)

Games like Drone Swarm

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–19k copies

≈ $97k–$116k after Steam's cut

from ~461 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Aliens: Dark Descent at ≈ 463k–753k copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.7M 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 466 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 277 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (7 of 8) and RTS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sci-fi, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Tactical; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2026, and 2 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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