How many copies did Shinobi Warfare sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 429 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Shinobi Warfare make?

Shinobi Warfare is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Shinobi Warfare?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 11k–17k; from 429 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 Shinobi Warfare and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shinobi Warfare's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3.5M

best case 56.3M (Warframe)

Games like Shinobi Warfare

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–3.5M copies

≈ $8k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~356 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Exploration (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Warframe at ≈ 42.9M–69.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 3k.

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 (3 of 8) and Martial Arts (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.9M–69.7M 1908x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	678k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
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