How much revenue did Orcish Skies make?

$571–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orcish Skies sell?

Q: How many copies did Orcish Skies sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $571–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 21 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 Orcish Skies and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Orcish Skies's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–70k

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Orcish Skies

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–70k copies

≈ $238k–$624k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M 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 929 reviews in their first month; the range was 178 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Tactics (8 of 8) and Card Battler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Superhero + Deckbuilding + Turn-Based Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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 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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