How much revenue did Death Squared make?

$103k–$276k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death Squared sell?

Q: How many copies did Death Squared sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 724 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $103k–$276k after Steam's cut $187k–$425k before Steam's cut; from 724 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 Death Squared and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death Squared's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 898–15k

best case 27k (I'm on Observation Duty 5)

Games like Death Squared

A typical game among these

≈ 898–15k copies

≈ $1k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~38 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: I'm on Observation Duty 5 at ≈ 20k–33k copies, ≈ $56k–$150k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 152.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Sokoban (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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