How much revenue did Press X to Not Die make?

$116k–$312k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Press X to Not Die sell?

Q: How many copies did Press X to Not Die sell?

141k to 229k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 141k–229k; $116k–$312k after Steam's cut $211k–$480k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Press X to Not Die and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Press X to Not Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 108k–557k

best case 1.5M (Love Is All Around)

Games like Press X to Not Die

A typical game among these

≈ 108k–557k copies

≈ $551k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is FMV (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: Love Is All Around at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 470 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FMV (4 of 8) and Choices Matter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Sexual Content, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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