How much revenue did Death Road to Canada make?

$1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Road to Canada sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Road to Canada sell?

438k to 712k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 438k–712k; $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 Road to Canada and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Road to Canada's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 77k–101k

best case 217k (Dead Estate)

Games like Death Road to Canada

A typical game among these

≈ 77k–101k copies

≈ $141k–$413k 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead Estate at ≈ 165k–268k copies, ≈ $681k–$1.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 430 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $9. The breakout hits carry Rogue-like + Horror + Shoot 'Em Up; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 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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