How much revenue did From Shadows make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did From Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did From Shadows sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 64 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 64 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 From Shadows and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including From Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 382–554

best case 5k (BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites)

Games like From Shadows

A typical game among these

≈ 382–554 copies

≈ $1k–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~16 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.

Best case: BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites at ≈ 3k–6k copies, ≈ $19k–$52k after Steam's cut. 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 10 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 29.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Side Scroller (5 of 8) and 2D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Hack and Slash, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + Hack and Slash + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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