How much revenue did The Shadowland make?

$7k–$19k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Shadowland sell?

Q: How many copies did The Shadowland sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 121 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before the cut; from 121 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 The Shadowland out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Shadowland's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–140k

best case 326k (Wuppo: Definitive Edition)

Games like The Shadowland

The middle of these games

≈ 38k–140k copies

≈ $294k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Wuppo: Definitive Edition at ≈ 249k–404k copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 226 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 86 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Metroidvania (8 of 8) and Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Exploration, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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