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How many copies did Shadow Survival sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 124–202
$340–$918 after Steam's cut $619–$1k before the cut
from 5 reviews (5 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Shadow Survival out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadow Survival's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.1M–50.7M
best case 98.8M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)
Games like Shadow Survival

The middle of these games

≈ 3.1M–50.7M copies

≈ $19.7M–$191.6M after Steam's cut

from ~289k 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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 75.3M–122.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
The era
The games you compared span 1999 to 2020, 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 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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