How much revenue did Death in the Water 2 make?

$189k–$509k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death in the Water 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Death in the Water 2 sell?

46k to 75k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 46k–75k; $189k–$509k after Steam's cut $344k–$783k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Death in the Water 2 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death in the Water 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 976k–3.4M

best case 15.2M (Subnautica)

Games like Death in the Water 2

A typical game among these

≈ 976k–3.4M copies

≈ $7.4M–$40.0M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Subnautica at ≈ 11.6M–18.8M copies, ≈ $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 43k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Underwater (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, 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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Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.8M 8.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut $173.6M–$395.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	381k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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