How much revenue did Shadows of Forbidden Gods make?

$146k–$393k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadows of Forbidden Gods sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadows of Forbidden Gods sell?

27k to 43k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–43k; $146k–$393k after Steam's cut $265k–$604k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 Shadows of Forbidden Gods and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadows of Forbidden Gods's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–4k

best case 245k (Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2)

Games like Shadows of Forbidden Gods

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–4k copies

≈ $3k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~96 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 at ≈ 186k–303k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M 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 74 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 4k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share God Game (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with God Game + Sandbox, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Early Access + Alternate History; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 of the 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 36 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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