How much revenue did Shadwen make?

$267k–$717k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadwen sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadwen sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $267k–$717k after Steam's cut $485k–$1.1M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Shadwen out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadwen's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 162k–982k

best case 3.6M (Dishonored 2)

Games like Shadwen

The middle of these games

≈ 162k–982k copies

≈ $391k–$11.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dishonored 2 at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $22.9M–$61.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Assassin (8 of 8) and Stealth (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + First-Person, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 2 of your 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).

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