How much revenue did Death Must Die make?

$1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Must Die sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Must Die sell?

539k to 876k copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 539k–876k; $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut; from 22k 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 Death Must Die out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Must Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 993k–3.3M

best case 8.6M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Death Must Die

The middle of these games

≈ 993k–3.3M copies

≈ $4.4M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~40k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 23k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (4 of 4) and Bullet Hell (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
The era: 3 of your 4 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 6.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.3M before the cut	$4.99	265k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
Halls of Torment 2024	Est. copies ≈ 788k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before the cut	$6.66	32k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.5M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.6M before the cut	$12.99	48k reviews Very Positive	DwarfAction Roguelike
Soulstone Survivors 2025	Est. copies ≈ 663k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $5.0M–$11.3M before the cut	$14.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell