How much revenue did Slash or Die make?

$15k–$39k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Slash or Die sell?

Q: How many copies did Slash or Die sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 256 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $15k–$39k after Steam's cut $27k–$60k before Steam's cut; from 256 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 Slash or Die and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Slash or Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–308k

best case 7.3M (Dead Cells)

Games like Slash or Die

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–308k copies

≈ $733k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Dead Cells at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 273 to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Metroidvania + Pixel Graphics + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 52 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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