How much revenue did Skull and Bones make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skull and Bones sell?

Q: How many copies did Skull and Bones sell?

124k to 202k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124k–202k; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–151k

best case 2.6M (Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™)

Games like Skull and Bones

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–151k copies

≈ $179k–$1.4M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ at ≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies, ≈ $21.4M–$57.7M after Steam's cut. 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 483 reviews in their first month; the range was 117 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Pirates (8 of 8) and Naval Combat (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pirates + Open World, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Assassin + Stealth + Parkour; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 3 of the 7 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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