How much revenue did Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer make?

$14k–$36k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer sell?

Q: How many copies did Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 81 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $14k–$36k after Steam's cut $25k–$56k before the cut; from 81 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 Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 91k–102k

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer

The middle of these games

≈ 91k–102k copies

≈ $112k–$529k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (7 of 8) and Level Editor (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2020, 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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