How much revenue did SkateBIRD make?

$107k–$287k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SkateBIRD sell?

Q: How many copies did SkateBIRD sell?

19k to 32k copies, based on its 783 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–32k; $107k–$287k after Steam's cut $194k–$442k before the cut; from 783 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 SkateBIRD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SkateBIRD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–26.6M

best case 128.5M (Terraria)

Games like SkateBIRD

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–26.6M copies

≈ $4k–$107.0M 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.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Terraria at ≈ 97.9M–159.1M copies, ≈ $269.0M–$723.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 8k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (6 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, and 3 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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BMX The Game 2020	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $102k–$275k after Steam's cut $186k–$424k before the cut	$24.99	601 reviews Mixed	BMXSports
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