How many copies did Fly of butterfly sell?

790 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Fly of butterfly make?

Fly of butterfly is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Fly of butterfly?

Estimated owners: ≈ 790–1k; from 26 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 Fly of butterfly out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fly of butterfly's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 204–6k

best case 181k (Heliborne Collection)

Games like Fly of butterfly

The middle of these games

≈ 204–6k copies

≈ $339–$15k after Steam's cut

from ~16 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Heliborne Collection at ≈ 138k–225k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 96.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fantasy (6 of 8) and Flight (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Military + Flight, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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