How much revenue did Shadows Over Loathing make?

$520k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadows Over Loathing sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadows Over Loathing sell?

82k to 134k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 82k–134k; $520k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $945k–$2.2M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Over Loathing out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadows Over Loathing's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 274k–818k

best case 962k (Dorfromantik)

Games like Shadows Over Loathing

The middle of these games

≈ 274k–818k copies

≈ $1.9M–$4.6M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Dorfromantik at ≈ 733k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 837 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + City Builder, priced around $14.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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