How much revenue did DEAD RISING® make?

$827k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEAD RISING® sell?

Q: How many copies did DEAD RISING® sell?

301k to 489k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 301k–489k; $827k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 7k 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 RISING® out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEAD RISING®'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–1.7M

best case 4.1M (SCUM)

Games like DEAD RISING®

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–1.7M copies

≈ $22.7M–$24.9M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: SCUM at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $38.8M–$104.2M 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 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Co-op + Post-apocalyptic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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