How much revenue did Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut make?

$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut sell?

372k to 604k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372k–604k; $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 62k–395k

best case 1.2M (Shadowrun Returns)

Games like Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut

A typical game among these

≈ 62k–395k copies

≈ $133k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shadowrun Returns at ≈ 884k–1.4M copies, ≈ $3.6M–$9.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 122 reviews in their first month; the range was 68 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based (7 of 8) and Cyberpunk (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cyberpunk + Turn-Based, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2025, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Shadowrun Returns 2013	Est. copies ≈ 884k–1.4M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.8M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$15.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	14k reviews Very Positive	RPGCyberpunk
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game 2023	Est. copies ≈ 107k–173k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Turn-BasedTactical RPG
Invisible, Inc. 2015	Est. copies ≈ 283k–459k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	CyberpunkDifficult
Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition 2015	Est. copies ≈ 237k–386k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	RPGCyberpunk
X-COM: Apocalypse 2008	Est. copies ≈ 61k–99k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $83k–$224k after Steam's cut $152k–$345k before Steam's cut	$4.99	961 reviews Very Positive	StrategyTurn-Based
UnderRail 2015	Est. copies ≈ 354k–576k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.0M before Steam's cut	$14.99	7k reviews Very Positive	RPGPost-apocalyptic
Keylocker \| Turn Based Cyberpunk Action 2024	Est. copies ≈ 7k–12k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $39k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$163k before Steam's cut	$19.99	289 reviews Very Positive	JRPGCyberpunk
Shift'n Slay 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$33k before Steam's cut	$11.99	99 reviews Very Positive	StrategyTactical