How much revenue did SKYRAID make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SKYRAID sell?

Q: How many copies did SKYRAID sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 13 reviews (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 SKYRAID and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SKYRAID's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22k–572k

best case 3.3M (STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II)

Games like SKYRAID

A typical game among these

≈ 22k–572k copies

≈ $114k–$693k after Steam's cut

from ~826 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FPS (3 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: STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II at ≈ 2.5M–4.0M copies, ≈ $27.3M–$73.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 247 reviews in their first month; the range was 62 to 46k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (3 of 8) and Military (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Shooter + Third-Person Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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