How much revenue did Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 40 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 Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 119k–366k

best case 3.7M (Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy)

Games like Sklime - A Difficult Climbing Adventure

A typical game among these

≈ 119k–366k copies

≈ $625k–$822k after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of the 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 254 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Psychological Horror (7 of 7) and Platformer (5 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Physics, priced around $8.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 2 of the 7 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 43 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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Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$25.8M before Steam's cut	$7.99	83k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
not available 2023	Est. copies ≈ 371k–603k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Parkour3D Platformer
A Difficult Game About Climbing 2024	Est. copies ≈ 141k–230k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $388k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $706k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult
The Game of Sisyphus 2024	Est. copies ≈ 21k–35k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$171k before Steam's cut	$6.99	866 reviews Mostly Positive	DifficultAction
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