How many copies did DEAD sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 90 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did DEAD make?

DEAD is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is DEAD?

Estimated owners: ≈ 2k–4k; from 90 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 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEAD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 62k–290k

best case 601k (How to Survive 2)

Games like DEAD

The middle of these games

≈ 62k–290k copies

≈ $149k–$684k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: How to Survive 2 at ≈ 458k–745k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Zombies (6 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2023, 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 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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