How much revenue did Dead Estate make?

$679k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Estate sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Estate sell?

165k to 268k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 165k–268k; $679k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut; from 7k reviews (Very 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 Estate out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Estate's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–91k

best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like Dead Estate

The middle of these games

≈ 37k–91k copies

≈ $113k–$219k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M 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 743 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 192 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Combat; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 2014	Est. copies ≈ 25.2M–41.0M 335x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut $189.1M–$430.1M before the cut	$14.99	450k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
20 Minutes Till Dawn 2023	Est. copies ≈ 720k–1.2M 22x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $989k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut	$4.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
West of Dead 2020	Est. copies ≈ 55k–90k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $303k–$814k after Steam's cut $551k–$1.3M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Replay ValueRogue-like
Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2019	Est. copies ≈ 28k–45k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $114k–$308k after Steam's cut $208k–$473k before the cut	$14.99	964 reviews Mostly Positive	LovecraftianAction
Over 9000 Zombies! 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75k–121k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $61k–$165k after Steam's cut $111k–$254k before the cut	$2.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeZombies
Survivors of the Dawn 2023	Est. copies ≈ 19k–31k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $42k–$112k after Steam's cut $76k–$172k before the cut	$7.99	765 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessAction Roguelike
Hell is Others 2022	Est. copies ≈ 29k–47k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $119k–$319k after Steam's cut $216k–$491k before the cut	$14.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Rogue-likeTop-Down
10 Minutes Till Dawn 2022	Est. copies ≈ 102k–167k 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Shoot 'Em UpAction Roguelike