How much revenue did Pawn of the Dead make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pawn of the Dead sell?

Q: How many copies did Pawn of the Dead sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 55 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 55 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 Pawn of the Dead and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pawn of the Dead's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3k

best case 78k (Scarlet Tower)

Games like Pawn of the Dead

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–3k copies

≈ $3k–$12k after Steam's cut

from ~67 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Scarlet Tower at ≈ 59k–96k copies, ≈ $81k–$219k 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 30 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 2k.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (3 of 8) and Action-Adventure (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Casual + Indie + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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