How much revenue did DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION make?

$282k–$757k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION sell?

Q: How many copies did DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION sell?

342k to 556k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 342k–556k; $282k–$757k after Steam's cut $512k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 14k 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 DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–1.0M

best case 4.0M (Hades II)

Games like DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–1.0M copies

≈ $8k–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hades II at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 257 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (5 of 8) and Rogue-lite (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Rogue-lite, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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