How many copies did Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island sell?

Q: How many copies did Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 484 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island make?

$132k–$355k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $132k–$355k after Steam's cut $240k–$546k before the cut; from 484 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 Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 73k–118k

best case 1.7M (Crypt of the NecroDancer)

Games like Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island

The middle of these games

≈ 73k–118k copies

≈ $411k–$674k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Crypt of the NecroDancer at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $5.3M–$14.3M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 316 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 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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Crypt of the NecroDancer 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 9.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.0M before the cut	$14.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	RhythmFemale Protagonist
One Way Heroics 2014	Est. copies ≈ 232k–377k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $223k–$599k after Steam's cut $405k–$921k before the cut	$3.49	4k reviews Very Positive	Mystery DungeonSide Scroller
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Backpack Hero 2023	Est. copies ≈ 211k–342k 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Replay ValueTurn-Based