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How many copies did Deadly 30 sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 105k–171k
$144k–$388k after Steam's cut $262k–$596k before the cut
from 2k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Deadly 30 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadly 30's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 184k–5.9M
best case 8.9M (Resident Evil 4)
Games like Deadly 30

The middle of these games

≈ 184k–5.9M copies

≈ $1.7M–$28.0M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $74.9M–$201.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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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