How much revenue did Death Come True make?

$105k–$281k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Come True sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Come True sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 960 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $105k–$281k after Steam's cut $190k–$433k before the cut; from 960 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 Death Come True out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Come True's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–77k

best case 92k (Five Dates)

Games like Death Come True

The middle of these games

≈ 33k–77k copies

≈ $125k–$362k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Five Dates at ≈ 70k–114k copies, ≈ $289k–$776k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 79 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + FMV, priced around $15.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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