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How many copies did Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 24k–38k
$195k–$524k after Steam's cut $354k–$806k before Steam's cut
from 953 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 Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 520k–821k
best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)
Games like Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town

A typical game among these

≈ 520k–821k copies

≈ $3.1M–$10.4M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Exploration (6 of 8) and Collectathon (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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