How much revenue did A Death in the Red Light make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Death in the Red Light sell?

Q: How many copies did A Death in the Red Light sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 50 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 A Death in the Red Light and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Death in the Red Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–331k

best case 3.1M (L.A. Noire)

Games like A Death in the Red Light

A typical game among these

≈ 152k–331k copies

≈ $1.7M–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: L.A. Noire at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.5M 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 972 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (8 of 8) and Investigation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Crime, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World + Noir + Crime; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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