How much revenue did Sker Ritual make?

$818k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sker Ritual sell?

Q: How many copies did Sker Ritual sell?

149k to 242k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149k–242k; $818k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 6k 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 Sker Ritual out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sker Ritual's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.6M–14.3M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Sker Ritual

The middle of these games

≈ 6.6M–14.3M copies

≈ $77.7M–$167.5M after Steam's cut

from ~204k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 72k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Resident Evil 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $70.1M–$188.4M after Steam's cut $127.4M–$289.8M before the cut	$39.99	221k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
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Resident Evil Village 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.8M–$112.3M after Steam's cut $76.0M–$172.8M before the cut	$39.99	153k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Survival Horror Horror
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $89.6M–$240.8M after Steam's cut $162.8M–$370.5M before the cut	$59.99	219k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldCo-op
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