How much revenue did Dead Wishes make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Wishes sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Wishes sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 79 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before the cut; from 79 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Dead Wishes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Wishes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 847k–1.1M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Dead Wishes

The middle of these games

≈ 847k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.3M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 800 to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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