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How many copies did Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before Steam's cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Only 7 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 Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–4.2M
best case 39.5M (Black Myth: Wukong)
Games like Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–4.2M copies

≈ $32.5M–$64.9M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.1M–48.9M copies, ≈ $496.2M–$1334.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 25k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 836k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Action RPG (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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