How much revenue did Shadow Warrior make?

$13.9M–$37.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadow Warrior sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadow Warrior sell?

1.7M to 2.7M copies, based on its 27k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.7M; $13.9M–$37.4M after Steam's cut $25.3M–$57.6M before the cut; from 27k 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 Shadow Warrior out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadow Warrior's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–4.6M

best case 12.1M (Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition)

Games like Shadow Warrior

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–4.6M copies

≈ $20.7M–$51.5M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Gore (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $101.6M–$273.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (4 of 8) and Medieval (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Pirates, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2022, 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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MORDHAU 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.3M–5.3M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.9M–$72.3M after Steam's cut $48.9M–$111.2M before the cut	$29.99	113k reviews Mostly Positive	MedievalMultiplayer
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $101.6M–$273.1M after Steam's cut $184.7M–$420.1M before the cut	$39.99	372k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOpen World
Chivalry 2 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.0M–$42.9M after Steam's cut $29.0M–$66.0M before the cut	$39.99	58k reviews Mostly Positive	SwordplayMedieval
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare 2012	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $28.3M–$76.0M after Steam's cut $51.4M–$116.9M before the cut	$24.99	65k reviews Very Positive	MedievalMultiplayer
Shadow Warrior 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.7M–$26.0M after Steam's cut $17.6M–$40.0M before the cut	$29.99	28k reviews Very Positive	ActionGore
Conqueror's Blade 2019	Est. copies ≈ 859k–1.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	30k reviews Mostly Positive	MedievalTactical
Bright Memory: Infinite 2021	Est. copies ≈ 988k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before the cut	$19.99	40k reviews Very Positive	ActionFemale Protagonist
Blackwake 2020	Est. copies ≈ 646k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	26k reviews Very Positive	PiratesMultiplayer