How many copies has Shadowrun Returns sold?

indielist estimates Shadowrun Returns has sold between 570,960 and 1,332,240 units (median 951,600), derived from its 9,516 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Shadowrun Returns?

Shadowrun Returns was published by Paradox Interactive, developed by Harebrained Schemes. See Paradox Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Shadowrun Returns released?

Shadowrun Returns was released in 2013.

How many reviews does Shadowrun Returns have on Steam?

Shadowrun Returns has 9,516 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Shadowrun Returns worth playing?

Steam players rate Shadowrun Returns 88% positive across 9,516 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.

Shadowrun Returns

Jul 25, 2013 Adventure $14.99

Developer Harebrained Schemes Publisher Paradox Interactive

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure-focused gameplay anchors Shadowrun Returns, a 2013 release from developer Harebrained Schemes. On Steam it has 13,613 reviews with 88% positive sentiment, and it was published by Paradox Interactive with an initial price of $14.99.

Shadowrun Returns is a 2013 Adventure game developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Paradox Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 9,516 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Harebrained Schemes with publisher Paradox Interactive is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 571,000 to 1.3 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, Shadowrun Returns can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

9,516

Positive

88%

Steam appid

234650

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

571K to 1.3M

units (median: 952K)

≈ $4.9M to $11.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

571K median 1.3M

+ How is this calculated?

9,516 reviews × NB(100) = 951,600 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2013	+30
price_$15	0
positive_88%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	100

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 Shadowrun Returns at roughly 571,000 to 1.3 million copies, with a median around 952,000, derived from its 9,516 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $8.1M 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

49 observed days · window low $3.74

Across 49 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.74 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $3.74 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndieRPG Strategy

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Shadowrun Returns sold?: indielist estimates Shadowrun Returns has sold between 570,960 and 1,332,240 units (median 951,600), derived from its 9,516 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Shadowrun Returns?: Shadowrun Returns was developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Paradox Interactive.
Who published Shadowrun Returns?: Shadowrun Returns was published by Paradox Interactive, developed by Harebrained Schemes. See Paradox Interactive's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Shadowrun Returns released?: Shadowrun Returns was released in 2013.
How many reviews does Shadowrun Returns have on Steam?: Shadowrun Returns has 9,516 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Shadowrun Returns worth playing?: Steam players rate Shadowrun Returns 88% positive across 9,516 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.

Players looking for games like Shadowrun Returns can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Harebrained Schemes's other releases and Paradox Interactive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shadowrun Returns 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 Shadowrun Returns page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.