How much revenue did Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings make?

$84k–$227k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 495 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $84k–$227k after Steam's cut $153k–$349k before Steam's cut; from 495 reviews (Mostly 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 Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–4.5M

best case 29.7M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–4.5M copies

≈ $16.4M–$34.7M after Steam's cut

from ~70k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Don't Starve Together at ≈ 22.6M–36.8M copies, ≈ $93.2M–$250.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 9k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 8) and Rogue-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Survival + Open World Survival Craft + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2026, 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 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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Realm of the Mad God Exalt 2012	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	48k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsMMORPG
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Don't Starve Together 2016	Est. copies ≈ 22.6M–36.8M 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $93.2M–$250.7M after Steam's cut $169.5M–$385.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	544k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
FTL: Faster Than Light 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut $24.9M–$56.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	79k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSpace
The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $14.4M–$38.7M after Steam's cut $26.1M–$59.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	70k reviews Mixed	RPGMartial Arts
Cult of the Lamb 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut $40.3M–$91.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	130k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingCute
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