How many copies has Shantae and the Pirate's Curse sold?

indielist estimates Shantae and the Pirate's Curse has sold between 99,036 and 231,084 units (median 165,060), derived from its 1,834 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Shantae and the Pirate's Curse?

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was developed by WayForward and published by WayForward.

Who published Shantae and the Pirate's Curse?

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was published by WayForward, developed by WayForward. See WayForward's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Shantae and the Pirate's Curse released?

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was released in 2015.

How many reviews does Shantae and the Pirate's Curse have on Steam?

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse has 1,834 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is Shantae and the Pirate's Curse worth playing?

Steam players rate Shantae and the Pirate's Curse 93% positive across 1,834 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.

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

Apr 23, 2015 Action $19.99

Developer WayForward Publisher WayForward

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action platformer indie game with Metroidvania structure, 2D play, a female protagonist, and a soundtrack tag. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse launched in 2015 and is self-published by WayForward, with 3,044 Steam reviews at 93% positive.

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a 2015 Action game developed by WayForward and published by WayForward. On Steam it has gathered 1,834 player reviews, 93% 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 $20. 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 99,000 to 231,000 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 and the Pirate's Curse can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,834

Positive

93%

Steam appid

345820

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

99K to 231K

units (median: 165K)

≈ $1.1M to $2.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

99K median 231K

+ How is this calculated?

1,834 reviews × NB(90) = 165,060 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2015	+30
price_$20	0
positive_93%	+10
final NB	90

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 and the Pirate's Curse at roughly 99,000 to 231,000 copies, with a median around 165,000, derived from its 1,834 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.9M 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

15 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $10.65. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-03.

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

Where to buy

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Humble Store -47%

$10.65 Buy
Fanatical -46%

$12.29 Buy
Steam reference

$19.99 Buy
Green Man Gaming

$19.99 Buy
GOG.com

$19.99 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 05:03 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

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Shantae and the Pirate's Curse sold?: indielist estimates Shantae and the Pirate's Curse has sold between 99,036 and 231,084 units (median 165,060), derived from its 1,834 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Shantae and the Pirate's Curse?: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was developed by WayForward and published by WayForward.
Who published Shantae and the Pirate's Curse?: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was published by WayForward, developed by WayForward. See WayForward's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Shantae and the Pirate's Curse released?: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse was released in 2015.
How many reviews does Shantae and the Pirate's Curse have on Steam?: Shantae and the Pirate's Curse has 1,834 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is Shantae and the Pirate's Curse worth playing?: Steam players rate Shantae and the Pirate's Curse 93% positive across 1,834 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 Shantae and the Pirate's Curse can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Touhou Luna Nights, Rabi-Ribi, Celeste, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, 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 and the Pirate's Curse 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 and the Pirate's Curse 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.

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