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How many copies did DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 342k–555k
$281k–$755k after Steam's cut $511k–$1.2M before the cut
from 14k 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 DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–1.0M
best case 4.0M (Hades II)
Games like DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–1.0M copies

≈ $7k–$5.5M after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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.

Best case: Hades II at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 258 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 86k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Rogue-lite, priced around $30.
The era
5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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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