How much revenue did Skybreakers make?

$43k–$116k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skybreakers sell?

Q: How many copies did Skybreakers sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 702 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $43k–$116k after Steam's cut $78k–$178k before the cut; from 702 reviews (Mostly 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 Skybreakers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skybreakers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 625k–1.6M

best case 3.8M (Brotato)

Games like Skybreakers

The middle of these games

≈ 625k–1.6M copies

≈ $2.5M–$7.4M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Brotato at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.6M before the cut	$4.99	118k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
Hero Siege 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.8M–$15.7M after Steam's cut $10.6M–$24.1M before the cut	$7.99	47k reviews Mixed	Action RPGPixel Graphics
Halls of Torment 2024	Est. copies ≈ 788k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before the cut	$6.66	32k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
Soulstone Survivors 2025	Est. copies ≈ 663k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.3M before the cut	$14.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Heroes of Hammerwatch 2018	Est. copies ≈ 289k–470k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.2M before the cut	$27.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Rogue-liteAction Roguelike
Death Must Die 2023	Est. copies ≈ 539k–876k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut	$6.99	22k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Children of Morta 2019	Est. copies ≈ 665k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.6M before the cut	$21.99	23k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerRogue-like
One Step From Eden 2020	Est. copies ≈ 190k–309k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeDifficult