How much revenue did Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game make?

$5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game sell?

485k to 789k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 485k–789k; $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.1M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 221k–654k

best case 1.1M (Riders Republic)

Games like Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game

A typical game among these

≈ 221k–654k copies

≈ $1.9M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Riders Republic at ≈ 810k–1.3M copies, ≈ $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 51 reviews in their first month; the range was 6 to 8k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (5 of 8) and Skateboarding (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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