How many copies has Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut sold?

indielist estimates Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut has sold between 87,465 and 204,085 units (median 145,775), derived from its 1,715 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut?

Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut was developed by WayForward and published by WayForward.

Who published Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut?

Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut was published by WayForward, developed by WayForward. See WayForward's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut have on Steam?

Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut has 1,715 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.

Is Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut worth playing?

Steam players rate Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut 86% positive across 1,715 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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut

Jul 15, 2014 Action $9.99

Developer WayForward Publisher WayForward

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action platformer indie game with Metroidvania structure, pixel graphics, and a female protagonist. Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut was released in 2014 by WayForward, with 1,698 Steam reviews at 86% positive, and a $9.99 initial price.

Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut is a 2014 Action game developed by WayForward and published by WayForward. On Steam it has gathered 1,715 player reviews, 86% 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 $10. 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 87,000 to 204,000 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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

1,715

Positive

86%

Steam appid

277890

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

87K to 204K

units (median: 146K)

≈ $499K to $1.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

87K median 204K

+ How is this calculated?

1,715 reviews × NB(85) = 145,775 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2014	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_86%	+10
final NB	85

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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut at roughly 87,000 to 204,000 copies, with a median around 146,000, derived from its 1,715 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $832K 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 $4.99

Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-23, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $5.32. The tracked-window low was $4.99 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%

$5.32 Buy
GOG.com -40%

$5.99 Buy
Fanatical -45%

$6.28 Buy
Steam reference

$9.99 Buy
Green Man Gaming

$9.99 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-23 06:11 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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut sold?: indielist estimates Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut has sold between 87,465 and 204,085 units (median 145,775), derived from its 1,715 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut?: Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut was developed by WayForward and published by WayForward.
Who published Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut?: Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut was published by WayForward, developed by WayForward. See WayForward's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut released?: Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut was released in 2014.
How many reviews does Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut have on Steam?: Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut has 1,715 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
Is Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut worth playing?: Steam players rate Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut 86% positive across 1,715 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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rabi-Ribi, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Celeste, Pizza Tower, 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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut 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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut 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.