How much revenue did Book of Shadows make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Book of Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did Book of Shadows sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 48 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 Book of Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Book of Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 705k–1.0M

best case 900k (Tricky Towers)

Games like Book of Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 705k–1.0M copies

≈ $3.0M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tricky Towers at ≈ 686k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 3 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Puzzle, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2025, and 1 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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