How much revenue did Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition make?

$2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition sell?

490k to 796k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 490k–796k; $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.1M before the cut; from 9k 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 Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–6.5M

best case 6.4M (Devil May Cry 5)

Games like Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 4.6M–6.5M copies

≈ $53.0M–$75.0M after Steam's cut

from ~89k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Devil May Cry 5 at ≈ 4.9M–7.9M copies, ≈ $40.3M–$108.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (7 of 8) and Character Action Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Character Action Game, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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