How much revenue did Skid Cities make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skid Cities sell?

Q: How many copies did Skid Cities sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 81 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before Steam's cut; from 81 reviews (Mixed)

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 Skid Cities and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skid Cities's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–5.5M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Skid Cities

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–5.5M copies

≈ $38.4M–$63.7M after Steam's cut

from ~92k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 76 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 34k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (8 of 8) and City Builder (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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