How much revenue did Death Squared make?

$103k–$276k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Squared sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Squared sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 723 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $103k–$276k after Steam's cut $186k–$424k before the cut; from 723 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 Death Squared out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Squared's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 898–15k

best case 26k (I'm on Observation Duty 5)

Games like Death Squared

The middle of these games

≈ 898–15k copies

≈ $1k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~38 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: I'm on Observation Duty 5 at ≈ 20k–33k copies, ≈ $55k–$149k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 152.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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