How much revenue did Dead Space (2008) make?

$10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Space (2008) sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Space (2008) sell?

1.8M to 3.0M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–3.0M; $10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's cut $18.4M–$41.9M before the cut; from 29k 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 Space (2008) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Space (2008)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.7M

best case 3.5M (Outer Wilds)

Games like Dead Space (2008)

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.7M copies

≈ $15.9M–$38.4M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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.

Best case: Outer Wilds at ≈ 2.6M–4.3M copies, ≈ $18.2M–$48.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Space, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 79 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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