How much revenue did Sky Dominion make?

$47–$127 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sky Dominion sell?

Q: How many copies did Sky Dominion sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $47–$127 after Steam's cut $86–$195 before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 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 Dominion and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sky Dominion's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 452k–7.5M

best case 65.2M (War Thunder)

Games like Sky Dominion

A typical game among these

≈ 452k–7.5M copies

≈ $2.1M–$10.5M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Military (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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.7M–80.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 46k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Military (4 of 8) and Realistic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Arma 3 2013	Est. copies ≈ 18.7M–30.4M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $154.1M–$414.3M after Steam's cut $280.2M–$637.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	296k reviews Very Positive	MilitaryAction
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.7M–80.7M 43x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	786k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
World War 3 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	55k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayFPS
Hand Simulator: Survival 2019	Est. copies ≈ 284k–461k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $233k–$627k after Steam's cut $424k–$965k before Steam's cut	$2.99	10k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 2021	Est. copies ≈ 372k–605k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	15k reviews Very Positive	FPSSniper
Beyond The Wire 2022	Est. copies ≈ 187k–304k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $514k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $934k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	8k reviews Mixed	FPSWar
VTOL VR 2017	Est. copies ≈ 752k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut $11.3M–$25.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FlightVR
Kingdom Heroes 8 2021	Est. copies ≈ 365k–593k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	15k reviews Mixed	RTSTactical RPG