How much revenue did Just Die Already make?

$399k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Just Die Already sell?

Q: How many copies did Just Die Already sell?

97k to 157k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 97k–157k; $399k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $725k–$1.7M before the cut; from 4k 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 Just Die Already out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Just Die Already's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–9.4M

best case 39.6M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Just Die Already

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–9.4M copies

≈ $44.6M–$110.2M after Steam's cut

from ~136k 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: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.2M–49.0M copies, ≈ $207.3M–$557.3M 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 122k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 38k to 200k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Open World, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2026, 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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