How much revenue did Styx: Master of Shadows make?

$3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Styx: Master of Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did Styx: Master of Shadows sell?

656k to 1.1M copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 656k–1.1M; $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before the cut; from 12k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Styx: Master of Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Styx: Master of Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.7M

best case 4.4M (Metro Exodus)

Games like Styx: Master of Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–3.7M copies

≈ $32.0M–$58.8M after Steam's cut

from ~80k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Metro Exodus at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $27.8M–$74.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 28k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + FPS, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 43 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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