How much revenue did DEAD OR SCHOOL make?

$557k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEAD OR SCHOOL sell?

Q: How many copies did DEAD OR SCHOOL sell?

81k to 132k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 81k–132k; $557k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M 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 DEAD OR SCHOOL out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEAD OR SCHOOL's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.8M–7.1M

best case 40.4M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like DEAD OR SCHOOL

The middle of these games

≈ 5.8M–7.1M copies

≈ $45.1M–$106.8M after Steam's cut

from ~146k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Female Protagonist (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: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 30.8M–50.0M copies, ≈ $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (4 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Mature; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 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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Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M 6.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Celeste 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut $44.5M–$101.2M before the cut	$19.99	146k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Precision PlatformerDifficult
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Muse Dash 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.0M before the cut	$2.99	122k reviews Very Positive	MusicRhythm
NieR:Automata™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $57.9M–$155.7M after Steam's cut $105.3M–$239.5M before the cut	$39.99	153k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackStory Rich
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.2M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	302k reviews Mostly Positive	Battle RoyaleMultiplayer
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DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $70.7M–$190.0M after Steam's cut $128.5M–$292.3M before the cut	$39.99	132k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy