Shadowrun Returns
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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.
Overview
Shadowrun Returns is a 2013 Adventure game developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Paradox Interactive. On Steam it has gathered 13,614 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 817,000 to 1.9 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
13,614
Positive
88%
Steam appid
234650
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0817K to 1.9M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $7.0M to $16.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 100 |
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 Shadowrun Returns at roughly 817,000 to 1.9 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 13,614 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $11.7M 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 $10.41Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.41 to $14.99, averaging $14.28 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.41 on 2026-05-21.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Shadowrun Returns sold?
- indielist estimates Shadowrun Returns has sold between 816,840 and 1,905,960 units (median 1,361,400), derived from its 13,614 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- When was Shadowrun Returns released?
- Shadowrun Returns was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Shadowrun Returns have on Steam?
- Shadowrun Returns has 13,614 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Shadowrun Returns within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.