How much revenue did Death Waves make?

$141–$380 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Waves sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Waves sell?

518 to 842 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 518–842; $141–$380 after Steam's cut $256–$584 before the cut; from 18 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 981k–2.2M

best case 2.4M (Back 4 Blood)

Games like Death Waves

The middle of these games

≈ 981k–2.2M copies

≈ $14.1M–$46.5M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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: Back 4 Blood at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $30.0M–$80.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (8 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + FPS, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2023, and none of them 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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