How much revenue did Nobody Wants to Die make?

$1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Nobody Wants to Die sell?

Q: How many copies did Nobody Wants to Die sell?

186k to 303k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 186k–303k; $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.3M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Nobody Wants to Die and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Nobody Wants to Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–96k

best case 305k (The Precinct)

Games like Nobody Wants to Die

A typical game among these

≈ 21k–96k copies

≈ $163k–$655k after Steam's cut

from ~711 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Precinct at ≈ 232k–377k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 145 reviews in their first month; the range was 133 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (5 of 8) and Investigation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Crime, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 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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