How many copies did Dead Herring VR sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Dead Herring VR make?

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

How big is Dead Herring VR?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 546–887; from 22 reviews (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 Herring VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Herring VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–78k

best case 93k (神都不良探 Underdog Detective)

Games like Dead Herring VR

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–78k copies

≈ $131k–$421k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 神都不良探 Underdog Detective at ≈ 71k–115k copies, ≈ $156k–$419k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 426 reviews in their first month; the range was 172 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FMV + Story Rich, priced around $8.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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