Skullgirls 2nd Encore
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Skullgirls 2nd Encore is a 2D hand-drawn fighting game developed by Hidden Variable Studios and published by Autumn Games. Released in 2013, it has garnered 29,036 Steam reviews with an 88% positive rating, indicating strong player reception for this multiplayer action title.
Overview
Skullgirls 2nd Encore is a 2013 Action game developed by Hidden Variable Studios and published by Autumn Games. On Steam it has gathered 32,126 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Hidden Variable Studios with publisher Autumn Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.8 million to 4.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Skullgirls 2nd Encore can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
32,126
Positive
88%
Steam appid
245170
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.8M to 4.3M
units (median: 3.1M)
≈ $26.1M to $61.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Skullgirls 2nd Encore at roughly 1.8 million to 4.3 million copies, with a median around 3.1 million, derived from its 32,126 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $43.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $13.99Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.99 to $24.99, averaging $23.68 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.99 on 2026-05-23.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
Fighting2D FighterIndieHand-drawnMultiplayerFemale ProtagonistCompetitiveAnimeStylizedLocal MultiplayerCrowdfundedControllerSingleplayerLore-Rich2DNoirActionCartoonArcadeStory Rich
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Skullgirls 2nd Encore sold?
- indielist estimates Skullgirls 2nd Encore has sold between 1,831,182 and 4,272,758 units (median 3,051,970), derived from its 32,126 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Skullgirls 2nd Encore?
- Skullgirls 2nd Encore was developed by Hidden Variable Studios and published by Autumn Games.
- When was Skullgirls 2nd Encore released?
- Skullgirls 2nd Encore was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Skullgirls 2nd Encore have on Steam?
- Skullgirls 2nd Encore has 32,126 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Skullgirls 2nd Encore within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Hidden Variable Studios's other releases and Autumn Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Skullgirls 2nd Encore sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Skullgirls 2nd Encore page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.