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How many copies did Dead Silence - Echoes of the Damned sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 372–605
$510–$1k after Steam's cut $928–$2k before Steam's cut
from 15 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Silence - Echoes of the Damned and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Silence - Echoes of the Damned's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–5.1M
best case 27.3M (The Forest)
Games like Dead Silence - Echoes of the Damned

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–5.1M copies

≈ $21.3M–$37.6M after Steam's cut

from ~77k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Building + Survival Horror + Open World Survival Craft; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2021, 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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