How much revenue did Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse make?

$13k–$34k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 187 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $13k–$34k after Steam's cut $23k–$52k before the cut; from 187 reviews (Mixed)

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 Ninja: Apocalypse out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 372k–750k

best case 56.1M (Warframe)

Games like Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse

The middle of these games

≈ 372k–750k copies

≈ $1.8M–$10.5M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Parkour (4 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: Warframe at ≈ 42.7M–69.4M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 78 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 3k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Parkour (4 of 8) and Ninja (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Looter Shooter. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Action RPG + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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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Ninja or Die: Shadow of the Sun 2023	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut	$14.99	20 reviews Mixed	Rogue-liteNinja
Sword With Sauce 2018	Est. copies ≈ 196k–319k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $270k–$725k after Steam's cut $490k–$1.1M before the cut	$4.99	6k reviews Very Positive	ActionParkour
Overgrowth 2017	Est. copies ≈ 312k–507k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.1M before the cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	ActionParkour
Warframe 2013	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.4M 56x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	676k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayAction RPG
not available 2023	Est. copies ≈ 371k–603k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	15k reviews Mostly Positive	Parkour3D Platformer
KUNAI 2020	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $70k–$187k after Steam's cut $127k–$288k before the cut	$16.99	601 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAction
Shadow Warrior 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.7M–$26.0M after Steam's cut $17.6M–$40.0M before the cut	$29.99	28k reviews Very Positive	ActionGore
Katana Rama 2023	Est. copies ≈ 794–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut	$4.99	32 reviews Positive	ActionAdventure