How much revenue did VTOL VR make?

$6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did VTOL VR sell?

Q: How many copies did VTOL VR sell?

749k to 1.2M copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 749k–1.2M; $6.2M–$16.6M after Steam's cut $11.2M–$25.5M before the cut; from 22k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 VTOL VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including VTOL VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–84k

best case 2.4M (Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition)

Games like VTOL VR

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–84k copies

≈ $90k–$211k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) 40th Anniversary Edition at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $29.8M–$80.0M 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 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 167 to 73k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Flight (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Flight, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Realistic + Open World + Multiplayer; 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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