How much revenue did Love is Dead make?

$28k–$74k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Love is Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did Love is Dead sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 276 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $28k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$114k before Steam's cut; from 276 reviews (Mixed)

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 Love is Dead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Love is Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–4.3M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Love is Dead

A typical game among these

≈ 3.5M–4.3M copies

≈ $21.0M–$38.1M after Steam's cut

from ~81k 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.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut $19.6M–$44.5M before Steam's cut	$14.99	41k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
Days Gone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $32.0M–$86.0M after Steam's cut $58.2M–$132.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	117k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldZombies
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The Walking Dead 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.0M–$56.5M after Steam's cut $38.2M–$86.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	81k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesStory Rich
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Inscryption 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.0M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's cut $36.9M–$84.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	149k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Card BattlerCard Game
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