How much revenue did Mortal Shell make?

$2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mortal Shell sell?

Q: How many copies did Mortal Shell sell?

297k to 483k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 297k–483k; $2.5M–$6.6M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.1M before the cut; from 12k reviews (Mixed)

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 Mortal Shell out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mortal Shell's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25.0M–38.0M

best case 39.4M (Black Myth: Wukong)

Games like Mortal Shell

The middle of these games

≈ 25.0M–38.0M copies

≈ $284.6M–$880.3M after Steam's cut

from ~708k 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.

Best case: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.8M copies, ≈ $495.5M–$1332.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 268k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Souls-like (5 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 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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