Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™
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This 2017 open-world action RPG from Monolith Productions offers fantasy combat and exploration. With 86,369 Steam reviews at an 89% positive rating, the game is published by WB Games.
Overview
Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ is a 2017 Action game developed by Monolith Productions and published by WB Games. On Steam it has gathered 86,520 player reviews, 89% 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 $50. The pairing of developer Monolith Productions with publisher WB Games 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 5.5 million to 12.7 million 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, Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
86,520
Positive
89%
Steam appid
356190
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.05.5M to 12.7M
units (median: 9.1M)
≈ $155.6M to $363.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$50 | +15 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| final NB | 105 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ at roughly 5.5 million to 12.7 million copies, with a median around 9.1 million, derived from its 86,520 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $259.4M 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
90d · low $29.18Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $29.18 to $49.99, averaging $46.07 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $29.18 on 2026-03-22.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
windows
Tags
Open WorldActionRPGSingleplayerFantasyAdventureThird PersonViolentStealthGoreWarStory RichHack and SlashAction RPGMedievalDark FantasyMagicAtmosphericStrategyMultiplayer
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ sold?
- indielist estimates Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ has sold between 5,450,760 and 12,718,440 units (median 9,084,600), derived from its 86,520 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™?
- Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ was developed by Monolith Productions and published by WB Games.
- When was Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ released?
- Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ have on Steam?
- Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ has 86,520 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Monolith Productions's other releases and WB Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ 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 Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ 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.