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How many copies did Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 174–282
$478–$1k after Steam's cut $869–$2k before the cut
from 7 reviews (7 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 7 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.

Does this actually work?

We left Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.7M
best case 39.3M (Black Myth: Wukong)
Games like Shalnor Legends 2: Trials of Thunder

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies

≈ $28.9M–$53.4M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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: Black Myth: Wukong at ≈ 30.0M–48.7M copies, ≈ $494.5M–$1329.5M 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 25k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 836k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action RPG (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Mythology + Action RPG, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Mythology + Souls-like + Combat; 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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