How much revenue did Great North Shelter 2 make?

$959–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Great North Shelter 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Great North Shelter 2 sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 47 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $959–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 47 reviews (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 Great North Shelter 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Great North Shelter 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82k–119k

best case 237k (35MM)

Games like Great North Shelter 2

The middle of these games

≈ 82k–119k copies

≈ $143k–$453k 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: 35MM at ≈ 181k–294k copies, ≈ $447k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 473 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Walking Simulator (7 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Walking Simulator, priced around $9.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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