How much revenue did Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition make?

$2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition sell?

490k to 797k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 490k–797k; $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.1M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Mostly 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 Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–6.5M

best case 6.5M (Devil May Cry 5)

Games like Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 4.6M–6.5M copies

≈ $53.4M–$75.4M after Steam's cut

from ~89k 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: Devil May Cry 5 at ≈ 4.9M–8.0M copies, ≈ $40.6M–$109.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (7 of 8) and Character Action Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Hack and Slash + Character Action Game, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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