How much revenue did Dead State: Reanimated make?

$789k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead State: Reanimated sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead State: Reanimated sell?

143k to 233k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 143k–233k; $789k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.3M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 Dead State: Reanimated out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead State: Reanimated's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–28.3M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Dead State: Reanimated

The middle of these games

≈ 4.1M–28.3M copies

≈ $118.3M–$266.1M after Steam's cut

from ~309k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 93k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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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The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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