How much revenue did One Shell Straight to Hell make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did One Shell Straight to Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did One Shell Straight to Hell sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before the cut; from 32 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 One Shell Straight to Hell out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including One Shell Straight to Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 278k–1.0M

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like One Shell Straight to Hell

The middle of these games

≈ 278k–1.0M copies

≈ $2.1M–$5.4M 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.

Best case: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Top-Down Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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