How much revenue did In My Shadow make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did In My Shadow sell?

Q: How many copies did In My Shadow sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 70 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 70 reviews (Very 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 In My Shadow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including In My Shadow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 78k–151k

best case 689k (Murders on the Yangtze River)

Games like In My Shadow

The middle of these games

≈ 78k–151k copies

≈ $153k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Murders on the Yangtze River at ≈ 525k–853k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M 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 463 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 399 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Detective + Story Rich + Mystery; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 79 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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