How much revenue did Shattered Pixel Dungeon make?

$150k–$404k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shattered Pixel Dungeon sell?

Q: How many copies did Shattered Pixel Dungeon sell?

55k to 89k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–89k; $150k–$404k after Steam's cut $273k–$621k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Shattered Pixel Dungeon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shattered Pixel Dungeon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 101k–342k

best case 619k (Tales of Maj'Eyal)

Games like Shattered Pixel Dungeon

A typical game among these

≈ 101k–342k copies

≈ $437k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Tales of Maj'Eyal at ≈ 471k–766k copies, ≈ $906k–$2.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Traditional Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 1 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 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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ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) 2015	Est. copies ≈ 79k–128k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $325k–$875k after Steam's cut $591k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Traditional RoguelikeCRPG
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Tales of Maj'Eyal 2013	Est. copies ≈ 471k–766k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $906k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$6.99	7k reviews Very Positive	Traditional RoguelikeRogue-like
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