How much revenue did Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game make?

$5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game sell?

485k to 788k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 485k–788k; $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.1M before the cut; from 20k 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 Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 219k–645k

best case 1.0M (Riders Republic)

Games like Skater XL - The Ultimate Skateboarding Game

The middle of these games

≈ 219k–645k copies

≈ $1.9M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Riders Republic at ≈ 788k–1.3M copies, ≈ $8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 52 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6 to 8k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (5 of 8) and Skateboarding (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $40.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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