How much revenue did The Shrouded Isle make?

$187k–$504k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Shrouded Isle sell?

Q: How many copies did The Shrouded Isle sell?

52k to 85k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–85k; $187k–$504k after Steam's cut $341k–$775k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 The Shrouded Isle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Shrouded Isle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–3.2M

best case 3.6M (The Outlast Trials)

Games like The Shrouded Isle

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–3.2M copies

≈ $1.6M–$50.4M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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 Simulation (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: The Outlast Trials at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies, ≈ $30.3M–$81.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 22 to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Economy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Co-op, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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