How much revenue did Shelter 3 make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shelter 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Shelter 3 sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 381 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $94k–$215k before the cut; from 381 reviews (Mixed)

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 Shelter 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shelter 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 412k–626k

best case 1.8M (SnowRunner)

Games like Shelter 3

The middle of these games

≈ 412k–626k copies

≈ $4.1M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: SnowRunner at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.7M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Automobile Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Automobile Sim + Multiplayer + Driving; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 38 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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