How much revenue did A Short Death make?

$327–$878 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Short Death sell?

Q: How many copies did A Short Death sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $327–$878 after Steam's cut $594–$1k before Steam's cut; from 16 reviews (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 Short Death and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Short Death's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 258k–715k

best case 2.4M (A Hat in Time)

Games like A Short Death

A typical game among these

≈ 258k–715k copies

≈ $2.0M–$10.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Hat in Time at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 531 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (8 of 8) and Collectathon (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 3D Platformer + Collectathon, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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