How much revenue did Skybound: Card Survival make?

$41–$109 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skybound: Card Survival sell?

Q: How many copies did Skybound: Card Survival sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $41–$109 after Steam's cut $75–$168 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 Skybound: Card Survival and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skybound: Card Survival's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–210k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like Skybound: Card Survival

A typical game among these

≈ 44k–210k copies

≈ $128k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-lite (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Against the Storm at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.7M 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 19 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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Against the Storm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 934k–1.5M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	38k reviews Very Positive	StrategyCity Builder
Ballionaire 2024	Est. copies ≈ 67k–108k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $226k–$608k after Steam's cut $411k–$936k before Steam's cut	$12.34	3k reviews Very Positive	Singleplayer2D
Griftlands 2021	Est. copies ≈ 359k–584k 6.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Card BattlerRogue-lite
Mainframe Defenders 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $33k–$87k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut	$5.99	796 reviews Very Positive	ExplorationTactical RPG
Warlords Under Siege 2025	Est. copies ≈ 12k–19k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $60k–$136k before Steam's cut	$9.99	482 reviews Mostly Positive	Action RoguelikeAction RTS
Simmiland 2018	Est. copies ≈ 59k–97k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $82k–$219k after Steam's cut $148k–$337k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SimulationIndie
Breachway 2024	Est. copies ≈ 38k–61k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $208k–$559k after Steam's cut $378k–$859k before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessStrategy
Terraformers 2023	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $931k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	SimulationProcedural Generation