How much revenue did Death Waves make?

$141–$380 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Waves sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Waves sell?

518 to 842 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 518–842; $141–$380 after Steam's cut $256–$584 before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Mostly Negative)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Death Waves and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Waves's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 994k–2.2M

best case 2.4M (Back 4 Blood)

Games like Death Waves

A typical game among these

≈ 994k–2.2M copies

≈ $12.2M–$46.8M after Steam's cut

from ~33k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Back 4 Blood at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $30.0M–$80.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Zombies (8 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + FPS, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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