How much revenue did 10 Dead Doves make?

$47k–$126k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 10 Dead Doves sell?

Q: How many copies did 10 Dead Doves sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 275 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $47k–$126k after Steam's cut $85k–$194k before Steam's cut; from 275 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 10 Dead Doves and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 10 Dead Doves's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 462k–662k

best case 2.4M (What Remains of Edith Finch)

Games like 10 Dead Doves

A typical game among these

≈ 462k–662k copies

≈ $3.0M–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: What Remains of Edith Finch at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Exploration, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Dark + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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