How much revenue did Dead Event make?

Dead Event is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Dead Event sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Event sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 179 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; from 179 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 Dead Event and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Event's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 119k–563k

best case 2.0M (PC Building Simulator)

Games like Dead Event

A typical game among these

≈ 119k–563k copies

≈ $1.2M–$5.0M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: PC Building Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $8.4M–$22.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 986 reviews in their first month; the range was 65 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Immersive Sim (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Education, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 36 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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