How much revenue did SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS make?

$5.3M–$14.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS sell?

Q: How many copies did SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS sell?

383k to 622k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 383k–622k; $5.3M–$14.1M after Steam's cut $9.6M–$21.8M before the cut; from 15k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–14.5M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–14.5M copies

≈ $46.4M–$121.1M after Steam's cut

from ~162k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (4 of 6) and Female Protagonist (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2025, and 1 of your 6 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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