How much revenue did Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition make?

$687k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition sell?

100k to 162k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 100k–162k; $687k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut; from 3k 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 Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–358k

best case 1.0M (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs)

Games like Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 16k–358k copies

≈ $377k–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs at ≈ 765k–1.2M copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 79 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 38 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (5 of 8) and Lovecraftian (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 1 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 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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