How much revenue did Shell Out Showdown make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shell Out Showdown sell?

Q: How many copies did Shell Out Showdown sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 17 reviews (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 Shell Out Showdown out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shell Out Showdown's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 521–814

best case 2.9M (Ultimate Chicken Horse)

Games like Shell Out Showdown

The middle of these games

≈ 521–814 copies

≈ $2k after Steam's cut

from ~18 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Ultimate Chicken Horse at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.6M 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 15 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 162.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Party Game (7 of 8) and 4 Player Local (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Funny + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 52 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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