How much revenue did Dead City make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead City sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead City sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 46 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 46 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 Dead City out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead City's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 374–700

best case 9k (Rabbit Hole)

Games like Dead City

The middle of these games

≈ 374–700 copies

≈ $433–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~13 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rabbit Hole at ≈ 7k–11k copies, ≈ $15k–$41k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 115 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Idler (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Gore + Violent, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Gore + Violent + Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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