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Action-focused gameplay anchors Death Must Die, a 2023 release tied to an unknown developer slug. It is self-published by the developer, listed at $6.99, and has 20,742 Steam reviews marked mixed with 0% positive.
Overview
Death Must Die is a 2023 Action game developed by Realm Archive and published by Realm Archive. On Steam it has gathered 21,553 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Realm Archive with publisher Realm Archive 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 711,000 to 1.7 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, Death Must Die can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
21,553
Positive
90%
Steam appid
2334730
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0711K to 1.7M
units (median: 1.2M)
≈ $2.8M to $6.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Death Must Die at roughly 711,000 to 1.7 million copies, with a median around 1.2 million, derived from its 21,553 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $4.7M 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 $3.68Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $3.68 to $6.99, averaging $6.64 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $3.68 on 2026-06-07.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Death Must Die sold?
- indielist estimates Death Must Die has sold between 711,249 and 1,659,581 units (median 1,185,415), derived from its 21,553 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Death Must Die?
- Death Must Die was developed by Realm Archive and published by Realm Archive.
- When was Death Must Die released?
- Death Must Die was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Death Must Die have on Steam?
- Death Must Die has 21,553 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Death Must Die within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Realm Archive's other releases and Realm Archive's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Death Must Die 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 Death Must Die 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.