How much revenue did Death and Progress make?

$592–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death and Progress sell?

Q: How many copies did Death and Progress sell?

720 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 720–1k; $592–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut; from 25 reviews (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 Death and Progress out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death and Progress's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 141k–251k

best case 3.5M (OneShot)

Games like Death and Progress

The middle of these games

≈ 141k–251k copies

≈ $643k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: OneShot at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 737 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 528 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Story Rich + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 52 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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