How much revenue did Shell Out Showdown make?

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

How many copies did Shell Out Showdown sell?

Q: How many copies did Shell Out Showdown sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 17 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 Shell Out Showdown and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shell Out Showdown's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 521–814

best case 2.9M (Ultimate Chicken Horse)

Games like Shell Out Showdown

A typical game among these

≈ 521–814 copies

≈ $2k after Steam's cut

from ~18 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Ultimate Chicken Horse at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 162.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (7 of 8) and 4 Player Local (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Funny + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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