How much revenue did SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS make?

$5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS sell?

Q: How many copies did SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS sell?

389k to 633k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 389k–633k; $5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.1M before Steam's cut; from 16k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS and predicted how it would do from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–14.6M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS

A typical game among these

≈ 4.4M–14.6M copies

≈ $46.5M–$122.0M after Steam's cut

from ~163k 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 6 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (4 of 6) and Female Protagonist (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2025, and 1 of the 6 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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