How many copies did From the Shadows sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 259 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did From the Shadows make?

From the Shadows is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is From the Shadows?

Estimated owners: ≈ 6k–10k; from 259 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 From the Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including From the Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–8.1M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like From the Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 3.8M–8.1M copies

≈ $20.1M–$27.0M after Steam's cut

from ~82k 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 Platformer (3 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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (3 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2018, 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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut $94.2M–$214.2M before the cut	$19.99	226k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
OneShot 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.6M before the cut	$9.99	65k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichPixel Graphics
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 9.8M–16.0M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.5M–$36.2M after Steam's cut $24.5M–$55.8M before the cut	$4.99	155k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Tower DefenseZombies
GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
BattleBlock Theater® 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.8M–$45.2M after Steam's cut $30.6M–$69.6M before the cut	$14.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-op Platformer
Papers, Please 2013	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.9M–$37.5M after Steam's cut $25.4M–$57.7M before the cut	$9.99	80k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	IndiePolitical
LIMBO 2011	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.4M–$36.1M after Steam's cut $24.4M–$55.6M before the cut	$12.49	62k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerIndie
Mirror 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before the cut	$1.99	84k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Sexual ContentNudity