How much revenue did Desert Of The Dead make?

$17k–$46k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desert Of The Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did Desert Of The Dead sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 432 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $17k–$46k after Steam's cut $31k–$71k before Steam's cut; from 432 reviews (Mixed)

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 Desert Of The Dead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desert Of The Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–5.6M

best case 10.7M (Hotline Miami)

Games like Desert Of The Dead

A typical game among these

≈ 3.2M–5.6M copies

≈ $17.6M–$35.5M after Steam's cut

from ~80k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Hotline Miami at ≈ 8.1M–13.2M copies, ≈ $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (2 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Violent + Top-Down, priced around $10.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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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Metro: Last Light Redux 2014	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.3M–$67.9M after Steam's cut $45.9M–$104.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	82k reviews Very Positive	Post-apocalypticFPS
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 309k–501k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	6k reviews Mostly Negative	MultiplayerFPS
Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut $28.1M–$63.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Hotline Miami 2012	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.2M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.3M–$60.0M after Steam's cut $40.6M–$92.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackViolent
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Broforce 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut $22.3M–$50.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	61k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AmericaAction
Duck Game 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.8M–$18.3M after Steam's cut $12.4M–$28.2M before Steam's cut	$12.99	39k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerFunny
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.2M–$43.5M after Steam's cut $29.4M–$66.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	80k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackGore