How much revenue did Nobody Wants to Die make?

$1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nobody Wants to Die sell?

Q: How many copies did Nobody Wants to Die sell?

183k to 297k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 183k–297k; $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M 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 Nobody Wants to Die out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nobody Wants to Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–96k

best case 300k (The Precinct)

Games like Nobody Wants to Die

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–96k copies

≈ $162k–$652k after Steam's cut

from ~708 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Precinct at ≈ 228k–371k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 145 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 134 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (5 of 8) and Investigation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Crime, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 1 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 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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