How much revenue did Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun make?

$17.6M–$47.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun sell?

1.6M to 2.6M copies, based on its 38k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.6M; $17.6M–$47.2M after Steam's cut $31.9M–$72.7M before the cut; from 38k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Tactics: Blades of the Shogun out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–4.7M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies

≈ $33.8M–$73.9M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (6 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry FPS + Looter Shooter + Battle Royale; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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