How much revenue did Dead Beats Survivors make?

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

How many copies did Dead Beats Survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Beats Survivors 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 Dead Beats Survivors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Beats Survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–821k

best case 4.9M (Enter the Gungeon)

Games like Dead Beats Survivors

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–821k copies

≈ $23k–$4.4M after Steam's cut

from ~420 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: Enter the Gungeon at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Bullet Hell + Action Roguelike, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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Beat Blast 2021	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $31k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before Steam's cut	$10.99	420 reviews Very Positive	Bullet HellMusic
SWARMRIDER OMEGA 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5k–7k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$0.99	131 reviews Mostly Positive	IndieAction
Nuclear Throne 2015	Est. copies ≈ 967k–1.6M 47x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.2M before Steam's cut	$11.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
City of Beats 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$80k before Steam's cut	$19.99	141 reviews Mostly Positive	RPGTop-Down
Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 214x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut $28.1M–$63.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Temp Zero 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$24k before Steam's cut	$4.99	172 reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRhythm
DB²: Disco Boogie of the Dead Beats 2024	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1 reviews 1 user reviews	Early AccessAction
BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE 2020	Est. copies ≈ 283k–461k 27x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Very Positive	FPS Rhythm