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How many copies did Skyfear sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 570–927
$2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut
from 23 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Skyfear out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skyfear's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122–448
best case 162k (Strike Vector)
Games like Skyfear

The middle of these games

≈ 122–448 copies

≈ $333–$936 after Steam's cut

from ~9 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Strike Vector at ≈ 123k–200k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 17.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Arena Shooter (7 of 8) and Flight (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Shooter + Arena Shooter, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Wargame + Multiplayer + Fast-Paced; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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