How much revenue did Shadowhand Solitaire make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadowhand Solitaire sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadowhand Solitaire sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 72 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut; from 72 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 Shadowhand Solitaire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadowhand Solitaire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–22k

best case 58k (Regency Solitaire)

Games like Shadowhand Solitaire

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–22k copies

≈ $2k–$144k after Steam's cut

from ~157 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Regency Solitaire at ≈ 44k–71k copies, ≈ $145k–$389k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 171.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Solitaire (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Solitaire + Visual Novel, priced around $12.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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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