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This action-oriented, open-world zombie survival game features co-op multiplayer. Released in 2016 by Deep Silver, it has garnered 23,486 Steam reviews with 82% positive sentiment. The game's core loop involves combat and exploration in a persistent, dangerous environment.
Overview
Dead Island Definitive Edition is a 2016 Action game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver. On Steam it has gathered 27,682 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Techland with publisher Deep Silver is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dead Island Definitive Edition can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
27,682
Positive
82%
Steam appid
383150
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.01.3M to 3.1M
units (median: 2.2M)
≈ $15.2M to $35.4M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dead Island Definitive Edition at roughly 1.3 million to 3.1 million copies, with a median around 2.2 million, derived from its 27,682 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $25.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.31Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.31 to $19.99, averaging $18.49 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.31 on 2026-05-02.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxwindows
Tags
ZombiesOpen WorldCo-opMultiplayerSurvivalActionGoreHorrorFirst-PersonFPSOnline Co-OpSingleplayerCraftingRPGSurvival HorrorViolentAdventureNudityControllerFemale Protagonist
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dead Island Definitive Edition sold?
- indielist estimates Dead Island Definitive Edition has sold between 1,328,736 and 3,100,384 units (median 2,214,560), derived from its 27,682 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dead Island Definitive Edition?
- Dead Island Definitive Edition was developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver.
- When was Dead Island Definitive Edition released?
- Dead Island Definitive Edition was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Dead Island Definitive Edition have on Steam?
- Dead Island Definitive Edition has 27,682 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dead Island Definitive Edition within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Techland's other releases and Deep Silver's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dead Island Definitive Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dead Island Definitive Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.