DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
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Action gameplay anchors DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT, a 2022 release from Kojima Productions published by 505 Games. On Steam it has 47,484 reviews with 92% positive sentiment, and its initial price was $39.99.
Overview
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT is a 2022 Action game developed by KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS and published by 505 Games. On Steam it has gathered 47,502 player reviews, 92% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $40. The pairing of developer KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS with publisher 505 Games 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 2.1 million to 5.0 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 STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
47,502
Positive
92%
Steam appid
1850570
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.02.1M to 5.0M
units (median: 3.6M)
≈ $48.8M to $113.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2022 | 0 |
| price_$40 | +15 |
| positive_92% | +10 |
| final NB | 75 |
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 STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT at roughly 2.1 million to 5.0 million copies, with a median around 3.6 million, derived from its 47,502 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $81.4M 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 $20.75Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $20.75 to $39.99, averaging $36.68 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $20.75 on 2026-05-20.
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Where to buy
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- Fanatical -10%$41.65 Buy
- GOG.com
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Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT sold?
- indielist estimates DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT has sold between 2,137,590 and 4,987,710 units (median 3,562,650), derived from its 47,502 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT?
- DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT was developed by KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS and published by 505 Games.
- When was DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT released?
- DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT was released in 2022.
- How many reviews does DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT have on Steam?
- DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT has 47,502 Steam reviews, of which 92% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS's other releases and 505 Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT 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 STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT 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.