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How many copies did Slice & Dice sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 64k–105k
$159k–$428k after Steam's cut $290k–$659k before Steam's cut
from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Slice & Dice and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Slice & Dice's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.1M–17.7M
best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)
Games like Slice & Dice

A typical game among these

≈ 8.1M–17.7M copies

≈ $72.2M–$91.7M after Steam's cut

from ~238k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 48k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 102k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Rogue-like (4 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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