How much revenue did Shadow Survival make?

$340–$918 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadow Survival sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadow Survival sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–51.1M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Shadow Survival

A typical game among these

≈ 3.1M–51.1M copies

≈ $19.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut

from ~290k 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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 1999 to 2020, 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Team Fortress 2 2007	Est. copies ≈ 79.1M–128.6M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.3M reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayHero Shooter
Paladins® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 10.5M–17.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	345k reviews Very Positive	Hero ShooterFree to Play
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 76.0M–123.4M 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.6M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 11.4M–18.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $188.7M–$507.3M after Steam's cut $343.1M–$780.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	234k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerZombies
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $20.7M–$55.6M after Steam's cut $37.6M–$85.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	30k reviews Mixed	ActionFPS
Team Fortress Classic 1999	Est. copies ≈ 587k–955k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $806k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$4.99	9k reviews Very Positive	ActionFPS
Dirty Bomb® 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	57k reviews Very Positive	Hero ShooterFree to Play