How much revenue did Skye: The Misty Isle make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skye: The Misty Isle sell?

Q: How many copies did Skye: The Misty Isle sell?

942 to 2k copies, based on its 38 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 942–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 38 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Skye: The Misty Isle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skye: The Misty Isle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–14.8M

best case 78.3M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Skye: The Misty Isle

A typical game among these

≈ 5.6M–14.8M copies

≈ $77.6M–$224.6M after Steam's cut

from ~193k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.7M–97.0M copies, ≈ $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Automobile Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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