How much revenue did Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition make?

$25k–$66k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 616 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–49k; $25k–$66k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before the cut; from 616 reviews (Mostly 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 Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–95k

best case 332k (LUFTRAUSERS)

Games like Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–95k copies

≈ $152k–$295k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: LUFTRAUSERS at ≈ 253k–411k copies, ≈ $695k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 380 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 243 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Bullet Hell (8 of 8) and Shoot 'Em Up (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Arcade, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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