How much revenue did Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut make?

$268k–$721k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut sell?

Q: How many copies did Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut sell?

98k to 159k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 98k–159k; $268k–$721k after Steam's cut $487k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 619k–3.9M

best case 5.9M (Celeste)

Games like Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut

A typical game among these

≈ 619k–3.9M copies

≈ $4.9M–$23.4M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.5M–7.4M copies, ≈ $24.9M–$67.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Metroidvania (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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