How much revenue did Dead Island Definitive Edition make?

$6.4M–$17.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Island Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Island Definitive Edition sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $6.4M–$17.3M after Steam's cut $11.7M–$26.7M before the cut; from 28k reviews (Very 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 Island Definitive Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Island Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.8M–11.6M

best case 39.6M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Dead Island Definitive Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 7.8M–11.6M copies

≈ $163.6M–$255.3M after Steam's cut

from ~226k 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: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.2M–49.0M copies, ≈ $207.3M–$557.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Co-op (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $37. The breakout hits carry Post-apocalyptic + Survival + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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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