How much revenue did Death and Ladders make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death and Ladders sell?

Q: How many copies did Death and Ladders sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut; from 12 reviews (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 Death and Ladders out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death and Ladders's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–515k

best case 4.1M (Buckshot Roulette)

Games like Death and Ladders

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–515k copies

≈ $11k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~224 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: Buckshot Roulette at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 16k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark (6 of 8) and Gambling (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark + Gambling, priced around $3.
The era: 7 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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