How much revenue did Better Off Dead - Life as a Prison Guard make?

$175–$472 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Better Off Dead - Life as a Prison Guard sell?

Q: How many copies did Better Off Dead - Life as a Prison Guard sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $175–$472 after Steam's cut $319–$726 before the cut; from 26 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 Better Off Dead - Life as a Prison Guard out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Better Off Dead - Life as a Prison Guard's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 944–2.1M

best case 4.6M (Fallout 76)

Games like Better Off Dead - Life as a Prison Guard

The middle of these games

≈ 944–2.1M copies

≈ $5k–$15.7M after Steam's cut

from ~585 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Horror (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Fallout 76 at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $38.3M–$102.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 43 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 14k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (4 of 8) and Gore (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 3 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 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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