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How many copies did Skin Stealers sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 273–443
from 11 reviews (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 Skin Stealers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skin Stealers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–394k
best case 1.2M (Mountain)
Games like Skin Stealers

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–394k copies

≈ $190k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mountain at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies, ≈ $248k–$668k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 576 to 10k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + God Game, priced around $1.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Mountain
2014
Est. copies
≈ 912k–1.5M
3.7x vs typical
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$248k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut
$0.99
16k reviews
Very Positive
SimulationIndie
Death Crown
2019
Est. copies
≈ 17k–28k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$252k before Steam's cut
$12.99
593 reviews
Very Positive
WargamePixel Graphics
Diplomacy is Not an Option
2024
Est. copies
≈ 315k–512k
2.9x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before Steam's cut
$29.99
13k reviews
Very Positive
Real-Time with PauseResource Management
The Culling Of The Cows
2014
Est. copies
≈ 193k–314k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$265k–$712k after Steam's cut $482k–$1.1M before Steam's cut
$4.99
3k reviews
Mostly Positive
IndieCasual
Necrosmith 2
2024
Est. copies
≈ 38k–62k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$83k–$224k after Steam's cut $151k–$345k before Steam's cut
$7.99
2k reviews
Mostly Positive
Tower DefenseStrategy
Night of the Dead
2024
Est. copies
≈ 295k–479k
2.7x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.1M before Steam's cut
$29.99
12k reviews
Mostly Positive
Open World Survival CraftZombies
Infectonator: Survivors
2016
Est. copies
≈ 49k–79k
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$133k–$359k after Steam's cut $243k–$552k before Steam's cut
$9.99
1k reviews
Mixed
ZombiesStrategy
Necrosmith
2022
Est. copies
≈ 133k–216k
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$109k–$294k after Steam's cut $199k–$453k before Steam's cut
$2.99
5k reviews
Very Positive
ZombiesAction Roguelike

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