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Action indie game Shiro launched in 2020 from Game Dynasty, with the same developer and publisher slug indicating self-publishing. On Steam it lists 484 reviews with a mixed rating and 0% positive shown, alongside an initial price of $12.99.
Overview
Shiro is a 2020 Action game developed by Game Dynasty and published by Game Dynasty. On Steam it has gathered 497 player reviews, 81% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $13. The pairing of developer Game Dynasty with publisher Game Dynasty 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 19,000 to 45,000 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, Shiro can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
497
Positive
81%
Steam appid
1290710
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.019K to 45K
units (median: 32K)
≈ $144K to $336K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2020 | +15 |
| price_$13 | 0 |
| positive_81% | 0 |
| final NB | 65 |
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 Shiro at roughly 19,000 to 45,000 copies, with a median around 32,000, derived from its 497 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $240K 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
6 observed days · window low $1.29Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-29 to 2026-09-02, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.29 to $12.99. The tracked-window low was $1.29 on 2026-07-29.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shiro sold?
- indielist estimates Shiro has sold between 19,383 and 45,227 units (median 32,305), derived from its 497 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Shiro?
- Shiro was developed by Game Dynasty and published by Game Dynasty.
- Who published Shiro?
- Shiro was published by Game Dynasty, developed by Game Dynasty. See Game Dynasty's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Shiro released?
- Shiro was released in 2020.
- How many reviews does Shiro have on Steam?
- Shiro has 497 Steam reviews, of which 81% are positive.
- Is Shiro worth playing?
- Steam players rate Shiro 81% positive across 497 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 Shiro can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Game Dynasty's other releases and Game Dynasty's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Shiro 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 Shiro 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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