How much revenue did The Shadowland make?

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

How many copies did The Shadowland sell?

Q: How many copies did The Shadowland sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 122 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut; from 122 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 The Shadowland and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Shadowland's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–141k

best case 327k (Wuppo: Definitive Edition)

Games like The Shadowland

A typical game among these

≈ 38k–141k copies

≈ $297k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Wuppo: Definitive Edition at ≈ 249k–404k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 224 reviews in their first month; the range was 85 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Exploration, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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La-Mulana 2013	Est. copies ≈ 167k–272k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $689k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	MetroidvaniaDifficult
La-Mulana 2 2018	Est. copies ≈ 33k–54k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $228k–$613k after Steam's cut $414k–$943k before Steam's cut	$24.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureMetroidvania
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Wuppo: Definitive Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 249k–404k 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	6k reviews Very Positive	MetroidvaniaExploration
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