How much revenue did Shadows of Forbidden Gods make?

$145k–$389k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadows of Forbidden Gods sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadows of Forbidden Gods sell?

26k to 43k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–43k; $145k–$389k after Steam's cut $263k–$598k before the cut; from 1k 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 Shadows of Forbidden Gods out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadows of Forbidden Gods's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–4k

best case 243k (Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2)

Games like Shadows of Forbidden Gods

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–4k copies

≈ $3k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~96 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 at ≈ 185k–300k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.7M 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 74 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18 to 4k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on God Game (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with God Game + Sandbox, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Early Access + Alternate History; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 36 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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