How many copies did Shiki sell?

778 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Shiki make?

Shiki is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Shiki?

Estimated owners: ≈ 778–1k; from 27 reviews (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 Shiki out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shiki's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 212k–417k

best case 913k (Night in the Woods)

Games like Shiki

The middle of these games

≈ 212k–417k copies

≈ $1.7M–$6.3M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 2D Platformer (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Night in the Woods at ≈ 695k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 567 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (4 of 8) and 3D Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Dark Humor, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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