How much revenue did Sky Captain's Return make?

$450–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sky Captain's Return sell?

Q: How many copies did Sky Captain's Return sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $450–$1k after Steam's cut $819–$2k before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–28k

best case 2.7M (Battlerite)

Games like Sky Captain's Return

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–28k copies

≈ $193k after Steam's cut

from ~558 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Battlerite at ≈ 2.0M–3.3M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 170 reviews in their first month; the range was 57 to 232.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MOBA (5 of 8) and Arena Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Top-Down Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2021, 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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