How much revenue did Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ make?

$3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ sell?

461k to 749k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 461k–749k; $3.8M–$10.2M after Steam's cut $6.9M–$15.7M before Steam's cut; from 13k 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 Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 375k–2.2M

best case 7.3M (Dishonored)

Games like Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™

A typical game among these

≈ 375k–2.2M copies

≈ $1.3M–$17.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Dishonored at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Stealth (8 of 8) and Assassin (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Stealth + First-Person, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2018, 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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Dishonored 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 8.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.3M after Steam's cut $27.9M–$63.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	88k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StealthFirst-Person
The Slater 2018	Est. copies ≈ 32k–52k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $88k–$235k after Steam's cut $159k–$362k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionViolent
Dishonored 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.0M–$61.8M after Steam's cut $41.8M–$95.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	67k reviews Very Positive	StealthFirst-Person
The Ship: Murder Party 2006	Est. copies ≈ 376k–610k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	6k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerIndie
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin 2007	Est. copies ≈ 311k–506k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $770k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$8.99	5k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction
Thief 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.5M–$30.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	24k reviews Mostly Positive	StealthAction
Hitman: Contracts 2014	Est. copies ≈ 207k–337k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $931k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$8.99	4k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction
Hitman: Blood Money 2007	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Very Positive	StealthAction