How much revenue did Dice With Death make?

$80k–$215k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dice With Death sell?

Q: How many copies did Dice With Death sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 839 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $80k–$215k after Steam's cut $146k–$331k before Steam's cut; from 839 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 Dice With Death and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dice With Death's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–439k

best case 6.5M (Balatro)

Games like Dice With Death

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–439k copies

≈ $87k–$2.7M 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Deckbuilding (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Balatro at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $20.5M–$55.0M after Steam's cut.

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 95 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Deckbuilding (4 of 8) and Rogue-like (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 3 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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Ballionaire 2024	Est. copies ≈ 67k–108k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $226k–$608k after Steam's cut $411k–$936k before Steam's cut	$12.34	3k reviews Very Positive	Singleplayer2D
觅长生 2023	Est. copies ≈ 797k–1.3M 15x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	32k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
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