How much revenue did Slash or Die make?

$15k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Slash or Die sell?

Q: How many copies did Slash or Die sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 256 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $15k–$39k after Steam's cut $27k–$60k before the cut; from 256 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 Slash or Die out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Slash or Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 122k–307k

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Slash or Die

The middle of these games

≈ 122k–307k copies

≈ $665k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $38.2M–$102.8M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 273 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Metroidvania + Pixel Graphics + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 52 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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