How much revenue did Dead Space™ 3 make?

$2.0M–$5.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Space™ 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Space™ 3 sell?

371k to 603k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 371k–603k; $2.0M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.4M before the cut; from 15k reviews (Mostly 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 Space™ 3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Space™ 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.0M–12.7M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like Dead Space™ 3

The middle of these games

≈ 5.0M–12.7M copies

≈ $48.9M–$111.3M after Steam's cut

from ~248k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 49k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (8 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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 43 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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Lethal Company 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12.7M–20.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut $63.2M–$143.9M before the cut	$9.99	511k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.4M–$65.5M after Steam's cut $44.3M–$100.8M before the cut	$39.99	89k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Content Warning 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$23.8M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.7M before the cut	$7.99	163k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
SCP: Secret Laboratory 2017	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	234k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.4M–17.0M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $28.7M–$77.0M after Steam's cut $52.1M–$118.5M before the cut	$9.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Split Fiction 2025	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.1M–$115.8M after Steam's cut $78.3M–$178.1M before the cut	$49.99	126k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opSplit Screen
Halo: The Master Chief Collection 2019	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $83.0M–$223.2M after Steam's cut $150.9M–$343.3M before the cut	$39.99	262k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackFPS
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.6M–$208.6M after Steam's cut $141.1M–$321.0M before the cut	$29.99	379k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op