How much revenue did 9 to Die make?

$69–$184 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 9 to Die sell?

Q: How many copies did 9 to Die sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $69–$184 after Steam's cut $125–$283 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 9 to Die and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 9 to Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 628–6k

best case 261k (Echo Point Nova)

Games like 9 to Die

A typical game among these

≈ 628–6k copies

≈ $942–$6k after Steam's cut

from ~46 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Echo Point Nova at ≈ 199k–323k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M 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 77 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arena Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Exploration + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
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 38 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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