How much revenue did Dead Beats Survivors make?

$69–$184 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Beats Survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Beats Survivors sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $69–$184 after Steam's cut $125–$283 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Beats Survivors out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Beats Survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–819k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like Dead Beats Survivors

The middle of these games

≈ 6k–819k copies

≈ $23k–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~421 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: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Beat Blast 2021	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$131k before the cut	$10.99	421 reviews Very Positive	Bullet HellMusic
SWARMRIDER OMEGA 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut	$0.99	127 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAction
Nuclear Throne 2015	Est. copies ≈ 965k–1.6M 47x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.2M before the cut	$11.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
City of Beats 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $19k–$51k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before the cut	$19.99	140 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGTop-Down
Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 213x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.4M after Steam's cut $28.0M–$63.6M before the cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Temp Zero 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before the cut	$4.99	171 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRhythm
DB²: Disco Boogie of the Dead Beats 2024	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1 reviews 1 user reviews	Early AccessAction
BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE 2020	Est. copies ≈ 283k–460k 27x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before the cut	$19.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FPS Rhythm