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How many copies did Shoot & Sow sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 198–322
$272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before the cut
from 8 reviews (8 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 8 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 Shoot & Sow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shoot & Sow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 426k–4.3M
best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)
Games like Shoot & Sow

The middle of these games

≈ 426k–4.3M copies

≈ $1.7M–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 409 to 103k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2026, 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 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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