How much revenue did FOREST OF THE DEAD make?

$163–$439 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FOREST OF THE DEAD sell?

Q: How many copies did FOREST OF THE DEAD sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $163–$439 after Steam's cut $297–$675 before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 FOREST OF THE DEAD and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FOREST OF THE DEAD's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–6.5M

best case 8.5M (Resident Evil 2)

Games like FOREST OF THE DEAD

A typical game among these

≈ 4.1M–6.5M copies

≈ $61.4M–$104.4M after Steam's cut

from ~128k 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: Resident Evil 2 at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 12k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Zombies (8 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 1 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 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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Resident Evil 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut $129.0M–$293.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	224k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
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Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5.5M–8.9M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $90.1M–$242.1M after Steam's cut $163.7M–$372.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	220k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldCo-op
Killing Floor 2009	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.0M–$64.4M after Steam's cut $43.6M–$99.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	69k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSZombies
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