How much revenue did Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 187 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before Steam's cut; from 187 reviews (Mixed)

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 Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 373k–751k

best case 56.3M (Warframe)

Games like Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse

A typical game among these

≈ 373k–751k copies

≈ $1.8M–$10.5M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Parkour (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: Warframe at ≈ 42.9M–69.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 78 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 3k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Parkour (4 of 8) and Ninja (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Action RPG + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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
Ninja or Die: Shadow of the Sun 2023	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$14.99	20 reviews Mixed	Rogue-liteNinja
Sword With Sauce 2018	Est. copies ≈ 197k–319k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $270k–$725k after Steam's cut $490k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	6k reviews Very Positive	ActionParkour
Overgrowth 2017	Est. copies ≈ 313k–509k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	ActionParkour
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.9M–69.7M 56x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	678k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
not available 2023	Est. copies ≈ 371k–603k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Parkour3D Platformer
KUNAI 2020	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $70k–$188k after Steam's cut $127k–$289k before Steam's cut	$16.99	604 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAction
Shadow Warrior 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.7M–$26.1M after Steam's cut $17.6M–$40.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	28k reviews Very Positive	ActionGore
Katana Rama 2023	Est. copies ≈ 794–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$4.99	32 reviews Positive	ActionAdventure