How much revenue did Desert Of The Dead make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desert Of The Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did Desert Of The Dead sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 434 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before the cut; from 434 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–5.5M

best case 10.6M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Desert Of The Dead

The middle of these games

≈ 3.2M–5.5M copies

≈ $17.6M–$35.3M after Steam's cut

from ~80k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.1M copies, ≈ $22.2M–$59.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (2 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 43 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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