How much revenue did The Unliving make?

$105k–$282k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Unliving sell?

Q: How many copies did The Unliving sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 904 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–36k; $105k–$282k after Steam's cut $190k–$433k before Steam's cut; from 904 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Unliving and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Unliving's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–6.3M

best case 31.8M (Dying Light)

Games like The Unliving

A typical game among these

≈ 44k–6.3M copies

≈ $287k–$73.1M after Steam's cut

from ~68k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.3M copies, ≈ $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 967 reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hack and Slash (6 of 8) and Zombies (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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Maneater 2021	Est. copies ≈ 669k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.8M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldDark Humor
Undead Horde 2019	Est. copies ≈ 40k–65k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $188k–$505k after Steam's cut $342k–$778k before Steam's cut	$16.99	1k reviews Very Positive	Villain ProtagonistRPG
Grim Dawn 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $31.4M–$84.5M after Steam's cut $57.2M–$130.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	110k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGHack and Slash
Dying Light 2015	Est. copies ≈ 24.2M–39.3M 7.2x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $166.4M–$447.4M after Steam's cut $302.5M–$688.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	496k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
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Undead Horde 2: Necropolis 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $105k–$240k before Steam's cut	$16.99	500 reviews Very Positive	ActionAdventure
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