Sky: Children of the Light
81
Quality Score
Excellent
Sky: Children of the Light
by thatgamecompany inc
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Sky: Children of the Light is an Android app from thatgamecompany inc in the Role Playing category, currently rated 4.5★ across 1,165,578 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 81: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a Role Playing app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
5 snapshots on record
Rating
4.5
Reviews
1,165,578 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$700K
Snapshots tracked
5
since May 2026
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$210K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $160K – $285K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in under a month at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 💎 In-app purchase plumbing | +$9K |
| ⚙ Role Playing complexity ×2.30 | +$77K |
| 🌐 Cross-platform reach (iOS + Android) | +$75K |
Total estimate
$210K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$21.0M
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $16.0M – $27.5M · 30× MRR multiple
💸
~100× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from iap / freemium model + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 💎 IAP / freemium model base | 28× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.4 (solid) | +8% |
| 🏷 Role Playing category multiple | -8% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
30× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
151.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
27.0M
Daily active
10.5M
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Role Playing engagement | ~130 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Role Playing D30 retention | 18% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.40 |
DAU / MAU
39% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🤖
Native Android (Kotlin)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 🏷 Category context | Role Playing |
| 📦 Tiny game bundle | → Native 2D engine |
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksRevenue Strength
5.8
Product Quality
9.1
Market Position
0.0
Growth Velocity
5.0
Defensibility
6.1
Operational Safety
10.0
Founder Strength
3.2
Monetization Maturity
4.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.55★ across 1,165,578 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 6 of 6 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,165,578 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Established app (6y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Sky: Children of the Light
- Developer
- thatgamecompany inc
- Bundle ID
- com.tgc.sky.android
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Role Playing
- Content rating
- Not found
- Languages
- Not found
Company
- Website
- thatskygame.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $700K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Not found
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- $0.99 - $49.99 per item
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter5 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline5 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →🔖 v0.34.5 (410941)🔄 updated 0d ago📂 Role Playing💰 Free💎 IAP $0.99 - $49.99 per item
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
6 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v0.34.3 (408160) → v0.34.5 (410941)
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,810 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
→ 30 days after: reviews +2,810 medium · co-occurring
2026-08
🔧
Shipped update — v0.33.8 (399977) → v0.34.3 (408160)
→ 30 days after: reviews +6,669 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v0.33.7 (394009) → v0.33.8 (399977)
→ 30 days after: reviews +3,910 high confidence
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v0.33.2 (384474) → v0.33.7 (394009)
→ 30 days after: reviews +8,439 high confidence
2026-05
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: reviews +4,529 high confidence
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
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2 ver.
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Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-09
2026-08-12
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Sky: Children of the Light: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 1,165,578 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
8 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Sky make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Sky earns approximately $700K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Sky profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $210K and monthly revenue $700K, Sky looks highly profitable — pays back its build investment in under a month at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Sky have?▴
Estimated audience: ~151.5M lifetime downloads, ~27.0M monthly active users, and ~10.5M daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Sky?▴
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What is Sky built with?▴
Our heuristic places Sky on the Native Android (Kotlin) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
How much would Sky sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $21.0M (marketplace range $16.0M – $27.5M). Calculated as 30× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
Who makes Sky?▴
Sky is published by thatgamecompany inc on the Google Play Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Sky's BU Score?▴
Sky has a BU Score of 81/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.