How much revenue did In The Shadows make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did In The Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did In The Shadows sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before the cut; from 59 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 In The Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including In The Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–14k

best case 33k (Long Dream)

Games like In The Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–14k copies

≈ $9k–$42k after Steam's cut

from ~231 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Long Dream at ≈ 25k–41k copies, ≈ $48k–$130k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 15 to 330.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Visual Novel, priced around $7.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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 38 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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Long Dream 2023	Est. copies ≈ 25k–41k 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $48k–$130k after Steam's cut $88k–$200k before the cut	$6.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventurePoint & Click
Don't Touch this Button! 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before the cut	$3.99	140 reviews Very Positive	CasualPuzzle
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