How much revenue did Shutter Stroll make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shutter Stroll sell?

Q: How many copies did Shutter Stroll sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 26 reviews (Positive)

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 Shutter Stroll and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shutter Stroll's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–60k

best case 233k (Proteus)

Games like Shutter Stroll

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–60k copies

≈ $86k–$285k after Steam's cut

from ~578 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Proteus at ≈ 177k–288k copies, ≈ $487k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 85 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 489.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Walking Simulator, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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