How much revenue did Shadows of Doubt make?

$3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Shadows of Doubt sell?

Q: How many copies did Shadows of Doubt sell?

440k to 715k copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 440k–715k; $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.5M before the cut; from 18k 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 Shadows of Doubt out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Shadows of Doubt's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–38k

best case 607k (Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator)

Games like Shadows of Doubt

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–38k copies

≈ $101k–$195k after Steam's cut

from ~883 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Flashing Lights - Police, Firefighting, Emergency Services (EMS) Simulator at ≈ 462k–751k copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 752 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 73 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crime + Open World, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Open World + Crime + Top-Down Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 43 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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