How much revenue did Airport CEO make?

$1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Airport CEO sell?

Q: How many copies did Airport CEO sell?

207k to 336k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 207k–336k; $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before the cut; from 8k 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 CEO out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Airport CEO's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–10.4M

best case 26.7M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Airport CEO

The middle of these games

≈ 115k–10.4M copies

≈ $1.3M–$131.4M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

Best case: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.3M–33.0M copies, ≈ $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 708 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 40 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (8 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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