How much revenue did Frontier Pilot Simulator make?

$163k–$438k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Frontier Pilot Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Frontier Pilot Simulator sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 956 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $163k–$438k after Steam's cut $296k–$674k before the cut; from 956 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 Frontier Pilot Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Frontier Pilot Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 419k–754k

best case 3.3M (EVE Online)

Games like Frontier Pilot Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 419k–754k copies

≈ $3.9M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: EVE Online at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Space (7 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Open World.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2022, 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 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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