How much revenue did Skull and Bones make?

$995k–$2.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skull and Bones sell?

Q: How many copies did Skull and Bones sell?

121k to 196k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–196k; $995k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut; from 5k 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 Skull and Bones out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skull and Bones's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–151k

best case 2.6M (Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™)

Games like Skull and Bones

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–151k copies

≈ $169k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ at ≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies, ≈ $21.4M–$57.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 484 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 118 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Pirates (8 of 8) and Naval Combat (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pirates + Open World, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Assassin + Stealth + Parkour; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 3 of your 7 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).

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