How much revenue did Deadstone make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadstone sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadstone sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 70 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before Steam's cut; from 70 reviews (Very 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 Deadstone and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadstone's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–251k

best case 438k (SAS: Zombie Assault 4)

Games like Deadstone

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–251k copies

≈ $59k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SAS: Zombie Assault 4 at ≈ 334k–543k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 231 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Top-Down Shooter (8 of 8) and Zombies (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Top-Down Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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SAS: Zombie Assault 4 2017	Est. copies ≈ 334k–543k 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	10k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayZombies