How much revenue did cheapskate make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did cheapskate sell?

Q: How many copies did cheapskate sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 84 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 84 reviews (Very 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 cheapskate and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including cheapskate's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–60k

best case 637k (Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game)

Games like cheapskate

A typical game among these

≈ 44k–60k copies

≈ $227k–$429k 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: Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game at ≈ 485k–789k copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M 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 776 reviews in their first month; the range was 254 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Skateboarding (7 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Skateboarding + Sports, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Realistic + Third Person + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
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).

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