How much revenue did The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR make?

$6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR sell?

Q: How many copies did The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR sell?

375k to 610k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 375k–610k; $6.2M–$16.7M after Steam's cut $11.3M–$25.6M before Steam's cut; from 12k reviews (Mostly 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 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–5.3M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–5.3M copies

≈ $19.9M–$49.2M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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