How much revenue did Evil Dead: The Game make?

Evil Dead: The Game is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Evil Dead: The Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Evil Dead: The Game sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–49k; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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 Evil Dead: The Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Evil Dead: The Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.8M–4.9M

best case 50.8M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Evil Dead: The Game

The middle of these games

≈ 3.8M–4.9M copies

≈ $42.8M–$59.3M after Steam's cut

from ~87k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M copies, ≈ $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival Horror + Horror, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Survival; 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).

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