How much revenue did Have a Nice Death make?

$1.8M–$5.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Have a Nice Death sell?

Q: How many copies did Have a Nice Death sell?

268k to 436k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 268k–436k; $1.8M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.6M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 Have a Nice Death and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Have a Nice Death's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–4.8M

best case 10.1M (Hades)

Games like Have a Nice Death

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–4.8M copies

≈ $10.5M–$52.7M after Steam's cut

from ~89k 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: Hades at ≈ 7.7M–12.5M copies, ≈ $52.9M–$142.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 14k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Rogue-like (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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