How much revenue did Demons with Shotguns make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Demons with Shotguns sell?

Q: How many copies did Demons with Shotguns sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 62 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut; from 62 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 Demons with Shotguns and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Demons with Shotguns's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 578–2k

best case 7k (Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board!)

Games like Demons with Shotguns

A typical game among these

≈ 578–2k copies

≈ $2k–$7k after Steam's cut

from ~29 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is 4 Player Local (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- Sweep the Board! at ≈ 6k–9k copies, ≈ $91k–$244k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 106 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 4 Player Local (4 of 8) and Arcade (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Anime, priced around $60.
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 36 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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