How much revenue did Death to Spies make?

$88k–$237k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Death to Spies sell?

Q: How many copies did Death to Spies sell?

64k to 104k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 64k–104k; $88k–$237k after Steam's cut $160k–$365k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Death to Spies out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Death to Spies's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.9M–7.2M

best case 10.2M (Batman™: Arkham Knight)

Games like Death to Spies

The middle of these games

≈ 5.9M–7.2M copies

≈ $55.1M–$79.0M after Steam's cut

from ~99k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Batman™: Arkham Knight at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies, ≈ $42.8M–$115.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third Person (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Superhero, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 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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