How much revenue did Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition make?

$689k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition sell?

100k to 163k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 100k–163k; $689k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–359k

best case 1.0M (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs)

Games like Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–359k copies

≈ $378k–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs at ≈ 770k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 79 reviews in their first month; the range was 38 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (5 of 8) and Lovecraftian (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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A House of Many Doors 2017	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $45k–$122k after Steam's cut $82k–$187k before Steam's cut	$10.99	436 reviews Very Positive	Story RichLovecraftian
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Void Sails 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut	$9.99	64 reviews Mostly Positive	ExplorationSailing
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We Need To Go Deeper 2019	Est. copies ≈ 174k–283k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $766k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$15.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Co-op2D
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