How much revenue did Dead Hook make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Hook sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Hook sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 23 reviews (Mixed)

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 Dead Hook and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Hook's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–59k

best case 466k (Haste)

Games like Dead Hook

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–59k copies

≈ $94k–$343k after Steam's cut

from ~773 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: Haste at ≈ 355k–577k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 384 reviews in their first month; the range was 197 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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