How much revenue did 9 Years of Shadows make?

$456k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 9 Years of Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did 9 Years of Shadows sell?

83k to 135k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 83k–135k; $456k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $829k–$1.9M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 9 Years of Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 9 Years of Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–4.9M

best case 25.3M (Hollow Knight)

Games like 9 Years of Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–4.9M copies

≈ $24.3M–$41.4M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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: Hollow Knight at ≈ 19.2M–31.3M copies, ≈ $79.3M–$213.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (6 of 8) and Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Souls-like + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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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