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How many copies did Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 30k–49k
$25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before Steam's cut
from 618 reviews (Mostly 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 Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–96k
best case 333k (LUFTRAUSERS)
Games like Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 40k–96k copies

≈ $155k–$298k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: LUFTRAUSERS at ≈ 253k–412k copies, ≈ $696k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 379 reviews in their first month; the range was 243 to 1k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Arcade, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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