How much revenue did The Typing of The Dead: Overkill make?

$1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Typing of The Dead: Overkill sell?

Q: How many copies did The Typing of The Dead: Overkill sell?

259k to 421k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 259k–421k; $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Typing of The Dead: Overkill out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Typing of The Dead: Overkill's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–42k

best case 97k (THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake)

Games like The Typing of The Dead: Overkill

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–42k copies

≈ $39k–$165k after Steam's cut

from ~507 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: Remake at ≈ 74k–120k copies, ≈ $507k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 296 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 727.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (7 of 8) and On-Rails Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with On-Rails Shooter + Shooter, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 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 61 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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