How much revenue did S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition make?

$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition sell?

212k to 344k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 212k–344k; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut; from 9k reviews (Mixed)

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 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.1M–16.1M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 5.1M–16.1M copies

≈ $62.2M–$183.8M after Steam's cut

from ~163k 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 88k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2024, and 1 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 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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