How much revenue did VR Skater make?

$35k–$94k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did VR Skater sell?

Q: How many copies did VR Skater sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 257 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $35k–$94k after Steam's cut $64k–$145k before the cut; from 257 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 VR Skater out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including VR Skater's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19.7M–46.0M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like VR Skater

The middle of these games

≈ 19.7M–46.0M copies

≈ $210.7M after Steam's cut

from ~780k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 40k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (8 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Hover Skate VR 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$13k before the cut	$9.99	32 reviews Mixed	SkateboardingSports
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut $207.7M–$472.5M before the cut	$19.99	838k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	268k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
Down Fast VR 2022	Est. copies ≈ 546–887 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut	$11.99	22 reviews Mostly Negative	Early AccessVR
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.3M–80.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	780k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Project Third Eye 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14k–$39k after Steam's cut $26k–$60k before the cut	$11.99	177 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessSandbox
Rocket Skates VR 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut	$9.99	54 reviews Very Positive	SimulationVR
hoVRboard 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut	$11.99	39 reviews Positive	VRSports