How much revenue did A Way To Be Dead make?

$4k–$12k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Way To Be Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did A Way To Be Dead sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 94 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $4k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 94 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 A Way To Be Dead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Way To Be Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–161k

best case 693k (Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location)

Games like A Way To Be Dead

A typical game among these

≈ 50k–161k copies

≈ $129k–$357k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location at ≈ 528k–858k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 192 reviews in their first month; the range was 26 to 545.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Robots + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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CASE: Animatronics 2016	Est. copies ≈ 179k–290k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $491k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $892k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	HorrorRobots
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 2016	Est. copies ≈ 52k–85k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $129k–$346k after Steam's cut $234k–$533k before Steam's cut	$8.99	1k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationHidden Object
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location 2016	Est. copies ≈ 528k–858k 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut	$7.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
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