How much revenue did DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT make?

$18.8M–$50.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT sell?

Q: How many copies did DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT sell?

1.7M to 2.8M copies, based on its 69k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.8M; $18.8M–$50.6M after Steam's cut $34.2M–$77.8M before Steam's cut; from 69k 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 DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–14.6M

best case 27.5M (Fallout 4)

Games like DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT

A typical game among these

≈ 5.6M–14.6M copies

≈ $69.3M–$173.9M after Steam's cut

from ~133k 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 Open World (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: Fallout 4 at ≈ 21.0M–34.1M copies, ≈ $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.9M–$45.4M after Steam's cut $30.7M–$69.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	49k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
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