How much revenue did GENSOU Skydrift make?

$120k–$321k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did GENSOU Skydrift sell?

Q: How many copies did GENSOU Skydrift sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 629 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $120k–$321k after Steam's cut $217k–$494k before the cut; from 629 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left GENSOU Skydrift out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including GENSOU Skydrift's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 692k–904k

best case 901k (Need for Speed™ Most Wanted)

Games like GENSOU Skydrift

The middle of these games

≈ 692k–904k copies

≈ $3.7M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Need for Speed™ Most Wanted at ≈ 687k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 454 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 196 to 779.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Racing (8 of 8) and Driving (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 61 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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