How much revenue did The Unliving make?

$104k–$280k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Unliving sell?

Q: How many copies did The Unliving sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 899 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–36k; $104k–$280k after Steam's cut $189k–$431k before the cut; from 899 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Unliving out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Unliving's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–6.2M

best case 31.7M (Dying Light)

Games like The Unliving

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–6.2M copies

≈ $287k–$72.5M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.1M–39.2M copies, ≈ $165.8M–$445.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 969 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Zombies (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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