How much revenue did The Dead Await make?

$14k–$37k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dead Await sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dead Await sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 157 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$58k before the cut; from 157 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 The Dead Await out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dead Await's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 54k–110k

best case 196k (Gordian Quest)

Games like The Dead Await

The middle of these games

≈ 54k–110k copies

≈ $286k–$715k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gordian Quest at ≈ 149k–243k copies, ≈ $821k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 247 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Battler (7 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Card Battler, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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