How much revenue did Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition make?

$9.5M–$25.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 21k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $9.5M–$25.6M after Steam's cut $17.3M–$39.4M before Steam's cut; from 21k 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 Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.8M–11.7M

best case 40.1M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 7.8M–11.7M copies

≈ $144.2M–$257.1M after Steam's cut

from ~227k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.5M–49.6M copies, ≈ $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Co-op (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World, priced around $37. The breakout hits carry Post-apocalyptic + Survival + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2022, and none of them 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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Z1 Battle Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Mixed	SurvivalMassively Multiplayer
Saints Row: The Third 2011	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	70k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldAction
Project Zomboid 2013	Est. copies ≈ 30.5M–49.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut $381.6M–$868.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	483k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
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