How much revenue did Die Young make?

$151k–$406k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Die Young sell?

Q: How many copies did Die Young sell?

55k to 89k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–89k; $151k–$406k after Steam's cut $274k–$624k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Die Young and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Die Young's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–7.7M

best case 31.8M (Dying Light)

Games like Die Young

A typical game among these

≈ 3.2M–7.7M copies

≈ $23.5M–$137.2M after Steam's cut

from ~119k 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 47k reviews in their first month; the range was 16k to 77k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Parkour (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, 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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