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How many copies did Air Combat XF sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 942–2k
$256–$690 after Steam's cut $466–$1k before the cut
from 31 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Air Combat XF out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Air Combat XF's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 224k–351k
best case 2.1M (ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN)
Games like Air Combat XF

The middle of these games

≈ 224k–351k copies

≈ $1.3M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

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

Best case: ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $26.9M–$72.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Flight (8 of 8) and Military (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Flight + War, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry War + Jet; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2020, 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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