How much revenue did GENSOU Skydrift make?

$120k–$323k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did GENSOU Skydrift sell?

Q: How many copies did GENSOU Skydrift sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 632 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $120k–$323k after Steam's cut $218k–$497k before Steam's cut; from 632 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid GENSOU Skydrift and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GENSOU Skydrift's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 700k–912k

best case 917k (Need for Speed™ Most Wanted)

Games like GENSOU Skydrift

A typical game among these

≈ 700k–912k copies

≈ $3.7M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Need for Speed™ Most Wanted at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 451 reviews in their first month; the range was 195 to 779.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (8 of 8) and Driving (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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Diesel Guns 2016	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $29k–$78k after Steam's cut $53k–$119k before Steam's cut	$7.99	316 reviews Mixed	Early AccessVehicular Combat
Need for Speed™ Most Wanted 2020	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut $7.0M–$15.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Mostly Positive	RacingMultiplayer
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