How much revenue did Ancient Demon Shadow make?

$238–$642 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ancient Demon Shadow sell?

Q: How many copies did Ancient Demon Shadow sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $238–$642 after Steam's cut $433–$988 before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 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 Ancient Demon Shadow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ancient Demon Shadow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.2M

best case 3.2M (Crossout)

Games like Ancient Demon Shadow

The middle of these games

≈ 1.0M–2.2M copies

≈ $7.0M–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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 Automobile Sim (3 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: Crossout at ≈ 2.4M–3.9M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (3 of 8) and Racing (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third Person + Gun Customization.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2020, 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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Clustertruck 2016	Est. copies ≈ 769k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before the cut	$14.99	18k reviews Very Positive	ParkourAutomobile Sim
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Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.2M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.7M–$28.8M after Steam's cut $19.4M–$44.2M before the cut	$19.99	57k reviews Very Positive	SimulationAutomobile Sim
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Notes of Soul 2019	Est. copies ≈ 481k–782k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut $7.2M–$16.4M before the cut	$29.99	17k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMassively Multiplayer
POLYGON 2020	Est. copies ≈ 917k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	37k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Crossout 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.9M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	70k reviews Mostly Positive	Third PersonGun Customization