How much revenue did Dead end Exit 8 make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead end Exit 8 sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead end Exit 8 sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 132 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before the cut; from 132 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 end Exit 8 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead end Exit 8's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 245k–387k

best case 2.5M (Prey)

Games like Dead end Exit 8

The middle of these games

≈ 245k–387k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Prey at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Immersive Sim (5 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sci-fi + Immersive Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Sci-fi + Space + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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