How much revenue did The Shell Part II: Purgatorio make?

$119k–$320k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Shell Part II: Purgatorio sell?

Q: How many copies did The Shell Part II: Purgatorio sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 698 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $119k–$320k after Steam's cut $216k–$492k before Steam's cut; from 698 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 The Shell Part II: Purgatorio and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Shell Part II: Purgatorio's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–304k

best case 349k (No Case Should Remain Unsolved)

Games like The Shell Part II: Purgatorio

A typical game among these

≈ 155k–304k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.5M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: No Case Should Remain Unsolved at ≈ 266k–433k copies, ≈ $512k–$1.4M 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 972 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (7 of 8) and Investigation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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