How many copies has Airborne Empire sold?

indielist estimates Airborne Empire has sold between 29,898 and 69,762 units (median 49,830), derived from its 906 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Airborne Empire?

Airborne Empire was published by Stray Fawn Publishing, developed by The Wandering Band LLC. See Stray Fawn Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Airborne Empire released?

Airborne Empire was released in 2026.

How many reviews does Airborne Empire have on Steam?

Airborne Empire has 906 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Airborne Empire worth playing?

Steam players rate Airborne Empire 88% positive across 906 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Airborne Empire

Apr 17, 2026 Action $29.99

Developer The Wandering Band LLC Publisher Stray Fawn Publishing

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action indie game Airborne Empire blends Early Access colony sim, Strategy RPG, wargame, and sandbox tags. Released in 2026 by The Wandering Band LLC with Stray Fawn Publishing, it has 867 Steam reviews at 88% positive and launched at $29.99.

Airborne Empire is a 2026 Action game developed by The Wandering Band LLC and published by Stray Fawn Publishing. On Steam it has gathered 906 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer The Wandering Band LLC with publisher Stray Fawn Publishing is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 30,000 to 70,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Airborne Empire can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

906

Positive

88%

Steam appid

2438680

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

30K to 70K

units (median: 50K)

≈ $512K to $1.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

30K median 70K

+ How is this calculated?

906 reviews × NB(55) = 49,830 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2026	-10
price_$30	+5
positive_88%	+10
final NB	55

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Airborne Empire at roughly 30,000 to 70,000 copies, with a median around 50,000, derived from its 906 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $854K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

15 observed days · window low $17.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $17.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $17.99 on 2026-06-03.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Airborne Empire sold?: indielist estimates Airborne Empire has sold between 29,898 and 69,762 units (median 49,830), derived from its 906 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Airborne Empire?: Airborne Empire was developed by The Wandering Band LLC and published by Stray Fawn Publishing.
Who published Airborne Empire?: Airborne Empire was published by Stray Fawn Publishing, developed by The Wandering Band LLC. See Stray Fawn Publishing's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Airborne Empire released?: Airborne Empire was released in 2026.
How many reviews does Airborne Empire have on Steam?: Airborne Empire has 906 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Airborne Empire worth playing?: Steam players rate Airborne Empire 88% positive across 906 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Airborne Empire can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Foundation, Colony Survival, Planetbase, IXION, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, The Wandering Band LLC's other releases and Stray Fawn Publishing's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Airborne Empire sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Airborne Empire page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.