How many copies did Dead Herring VR sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Dead Herring VR make?

Dead Herring VR is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Dead Herring VR?

Estimated owners: ≈ 546–887; from 22 reviews (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 Herring VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Herring VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–72k

best case 93k (神都不良探 Underdog Detective)

Games like Dead Herring VR

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–72k copies

≈ $131k–$388k 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 神都不良探 Underdog Detective at ≈ 71k–115k copies, ≈ $156k–$419k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 426 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 172 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FMV + Story Rich, priced around $8.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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