How much revenue did Sky Link make?

Sky Link is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Sky Link sell?

Q: How many copies did Sky Link sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 68 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; from 68 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 Sky Link out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sky Link's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32.7M–100.3M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Sky Link

The middle of these games

≈ 32.7M–100.3M copies

≈ $253.3M–$353.9M after Steam's cut

from ~778k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (3 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2019, 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 36 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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ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.7M–43.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut $200.2M–$455.4M before the cut	$14.99	776k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Destiny 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 19.0M–30.9M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	661k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
War Thunder 2013	Est. copies ≈ 49.3M–80.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	780k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	676k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.3M–122.4M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
Unturned 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.6M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	565k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlaySurvival