How much revenue did Sky Rogue make?

$233k–$627k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sky Rogue sell?

Q: How many copies did Sky Rogue sell?

42k to 69k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–69k; $233k–$627k after Steam's cut $424k–$965k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Sky Rogue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sky Rogue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 87k–794k

best case 1.5M (Trailmakers)

Games like Sky Rogue

A typical game among these

≈ 87k–794k copies

≈ $815k–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

Best case: Trailmakers at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 460 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Flight (7 of 8) and Jet (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action-Adventure, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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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