How much revenue did One Shell Straight to Hell make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did One Shell Straight to Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did One Shell Straight to Hell sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 32 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid One Shell Straight to Hell and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including One Shell Straight to Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 280k–1.0M

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like One Shell Straight to Hell

A typical game among these

≈ 280k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.1M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~10k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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