How much revenue did Dead Island Definitive Edition make?

$6.5M–$17.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Island Definitive Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Island Definitive Edition sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $6.5M–$17.5M after Steam's cut $11.8M–$26.9M before Steam's cut; from 28k 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 Island Definitive Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Island Definitive Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.8M–11.7M

best case 40.1M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Dead Island Definitive Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 7.8M–11.7M copies

≈ $144.2M–$257.1M after Steam's cut

from ~227k 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: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.5M–49.6M copies, ≈ $209.9M–$564.4M 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 (6 of 8) and Co-op (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $37. The breakout hits carry Post-apocalyptic + Survival + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Project Zomboid 2013	Est. copies ≈ 30.5M–49.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut $381.6M–$868.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	483k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition 2022	Est. copies ≈ 5.5M–8.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $90.1M–$242.1M after Steam's cut $163.7M–$372.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	220k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldCo-op
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut $120.6M–$274.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	279k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldExtraction Shooter
Saints Row: The Third 2011	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.2M too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $22.0M–$50.1M before Steam's cut	$9.99	70k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldAction
DayZ 2018	Est. copies ≈ 14.3M–23.2M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $196.4M–$527.9M after Steam's cut $357.0M–$812.2M before Steam's cut	$49.99	470k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalOpen World
No More Room in Hell 2013	Est. copies ≈ 4.8M–7.9M too small to compare SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	77k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayZombies
Z1 Battle Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Mixed	SurvivalMassively Multiplayer
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 11.4M–18.6M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $188.7M–$507.3M after Steam's cut $343.1M–$780.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	234k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerZombies