How much revenue did A Way To Be Dead make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Way To Be Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did A Way To Be Dead sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 94 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 94 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 A Way To Be Dead out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Way To Be Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–159k

best case 689k (Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location)

Games like A Way To Be Dead

The middle of these games

≈ 50k–159k copies

≈ $129k–$349k 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location at ≈ 525k–854k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M 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 193 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 26 to 546.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Robots + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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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