How much revenue did Dead Space™ 3 make?

$2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Space™ 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Space™ 3 sell?

376k to 610k copies, based on its 15k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 376k–610k; $2.1M–$5.6M after Steam's cut $3.8M–$8.5M before Steam's cut; from 15k reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 Dead Space™ 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Space™ 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.0M–12.8M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like Dead Space™ 3

A typical game among these

≈ 5.0M–12.8M copies

≈ $46.6M–$111.8M after Steam's cut

from ~249k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 49k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (8 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of the 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Lethal Company 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12.7M–20.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut $63.3M–$144.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	511k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut $39.1M–$88.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	90k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Content Warning 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $8.9M–$24.0M after Steam's cut $16.2M–$36.9M before Steam's cut	$7.99	164k reviews Very Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
SCP: Secret Laboratory 2017	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	235k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.6M–17.2M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	427k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Split Fiction 2025	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut $78.8M–$179.4M before Steam's cut	$49.99	127k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opSplit Screen
Halo: The Master Chief Collection 2019	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $83.3M–$223.9M after Steam's cut $151.4M–$344.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	263k reviews Very Positive	Great SoundtrackFPS
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut $141.5M–$321.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op