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?

657k 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: ≈ 657k–1.1M; $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut; from 12k reviews (Very 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 Styx: Master of Shadows and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Styx: Master of Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.8M

best case 4.4M (Metro Exodus)

Games like Styx: Master of Shadows

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–3.8M copies

≈ $32.1M–$59.3M after Steam's cut

from ~81k 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: Metro Exodus at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $27.9M–$74.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + FPS, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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