How much revenue did The Dead Await make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dead Await sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dead Await sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 159 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$58k before Steam's cut; from 159 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 The Dead Await and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dead Await's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 54k–111k

best case 197k (Gordian Quest)

Games like The Dead Await

A typical game among these

≈ 54k–111k copies

≈ $292k–$719k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gordian Quest at ≈ 150k–244k copies, ≈ $827k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 247 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Battler (7 of 8) and Party-Based RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Card Battler, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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