Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
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This 2018 action-adventure indie game features 869 positive Steam reviews. The Ultimate Edition offers the core Shantae: Half-Genie Hero experience. Publisher and developer attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition is a 2018 Action game developed by WayForward and published by WayForward. On Steam it has gathered 894 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer WayForward with publisher WayForward is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 43,000 to 100,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
894
Positive
88%
Steam appid
764300
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
8
Historical snapshot ·
Sales estimate
v1.043K to 100K
units (median: 72K)
≈ $735K to $1.7M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2018 | +15 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 80 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition at roughly 43,000 to 100,000 copies, with a median around 72,000, derived from its 894 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
18 observed days · window low $14.99Across 18 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $14.99 to $15.38. The tracked-window low was $14.99 on 2026-05-31.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -46%$15.26 Buy
- Humble Store -47%$15.98 Buy
- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$29.99 Buy
- GOG.com$29.99 Buy
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:53 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Tags
Female ProtagonistPlatformerIndieAdventureMetroidvaniaActionPiratesAnimeGreat Soundtrack2DSide ScrollerSingleplayerCuteNudity
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition has sold between 42,912 and 100,128 units (median 71,520), derived from its 894 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition?
- Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition was developed by WayForward and published by WayForward.
- Who published Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition?
- Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition was published by WayForward, developed by WayForward. See WayForward's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition released?
- Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition have on Steam?
- Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition has 894 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition worth playing?
- Steam players rate Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition 88% positive across 894 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Touhou Luna Nights, Rabi-Ribi, Hollow Knight, Celeste, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, WayForward's other releases and WayForward's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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