How much revenue did Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 156 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut; from 156 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Does this actually work?

We left Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 482k–4.5M

best case 7.5M (Far Cry® 5)

Games like Grey Skies: A War of the Worlds Story

The middle of these games

≈ 482k–4.5M copies

≈ $5.4M–$65.4M after Steam's cut

from ~44k 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.

Best case: Far Cry® 5 at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.7M–$254.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Action-Adventure, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 of your 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 52 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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