How much revenue did Skid Cities make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skid Cities sell?

Q: How many copies did Skid Cities sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 81 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $20k–$46k before the cut; from 81 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–5.5M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Skid Cities

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–5.5M copies

≈ $38.3M–$63.4M after Steam's cut

from ~92k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 76 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 34k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (8 of 8) and City Builder (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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