How much revenue did DEAD TRASH make?

$10k–$27k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEAD TRASH sell?

Q: How many copies did DEAD TRASH sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 496 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $10k–$27k after Steam's cut $18k–$42k before Steam's cut; from 496 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 DEAD TRASH and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEAD TRASH's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–26k

best case 596k (Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun)

Games like DEAD TRASH

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–26k copies

≈ $9k–$190k after Steam's cut

from ~283 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: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun at ≈ 454k–738k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M 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 65 reviews in their first month; the range was 22 to 7k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Boomer Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + FPS, priced around $16. The breakout hits carry Warhammer 40K + Retro + Pixel Graphics; 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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