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How many copies did ShellShock Live sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 883k–1.4M
$2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before the cut
from 36k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left ShellShock Live out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ShellShock Live's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.3M–6.6M
best case 64.7M (War Thunder)
Games like ShellShock Live

The middle of these games

≈ 3.3M–6.6M copies

≈ $39.7M–$72.5M after Steam's cut

from ~57k 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: War Thunder at ≈ 49.3M–80.1M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on War (6 of 8) and World War II (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Vehicular Combat. The breakout hits carry Vehicular Combat + Combat + VR; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2021, 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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