How much revenue did Skybreakers make?

$43k–$116k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skybreakers sell?

Q: How many copies did Skybreakers sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 703 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $43k–$116k after Steam's cut $78k–$178k before Steam's cut; from 703 reviews (Mostly 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 Skybreakers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skybreakers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 628k–1.7M

best case 3.9M (Brotato)

Games like Skybreakers

A typical game among these

≈ 628k–1.7M copies

≈ $2.1M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Brotato at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	119k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Hero Siege 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.8M after Steam's cut $10.7M–$24.4M before Steam's cut	$7.99	48k reviews Mixed	Action RPGPixel Graphics
Halls of Torment 2024	Est. copies ≈ 793k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before Steam's cut	$6.66	32k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
Soulstone Survivors 2025	Est. copies ≈ 668k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Heroes of Hammerwatch 2018	Est. copies ≈ 290k–471k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$4.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-liteAction Roguelike
Death Must Die 2023	Est. copies ≈ 541k–879k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$6.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Children of Morta 2019	Est. copies ≈ 674k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.9M before Steam's cut	$21.99	23k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerRogue-like
One Step From Eden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 190k–309k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeDifficult