How much revenue did I Expect You To Die make?

$657k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I Expect You To Die sell?

Q: How many copies did I Expect You To Die sell?

96k to 155k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 96k–155k; $657k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut; from 3k 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 I Expect You To Die out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Expect You To Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 731k–1.2M

best case 1.8M (Liar's Bar)

Games like I Expect You To Die

The middle of these games

≈ 731k–1.2M copies

≈ $5.6M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Liar's Bar at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M 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 6k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Gambling, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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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