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How many copies did Shadow Complex Remastered sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 40k–65k
$165k–$444k after Steam's cut $300k–$682k before the cut
from 962 reviews (Very 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 Shadow Complex Remastered out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadow Complex Remastered's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 495k–757k
best case 3.9M (Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition)
Games like Shadow Complex Remastered

The middle of these games

≈ 495k–757k copies

≈ $3.0M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $16.3M–$43.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + Story Rich + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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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