Genre HorrorReleased Jan 9, 2009
Dead Space (2008)
Developed by EA Redwood Shores · Published by Electronic Arts
$19.99
Estimated lifetime revenue
$3.87M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$2.71M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
392.5K
≈ 13 sales per review
Reviews
29,354
Very Positive92% positive
Playing now
45
13-day peak 102 · low 45
New reviews, last 13 days
+63
≈ 5 a day since Oct 4
History
Oct 4 – Oct 17
29.4K29.3K29.3K29.3K
Oct 4Oct 10Oct 17
Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.
How it compares
Horror →Against the 120 most-reviewed Horror games on Steam
Outearns 7% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.
Median
$18.34M
110,408 reviews
Top 10% start at
$68.34M
This game
$3.87M
3rd pct. by reviews
The group is the games with the most reviews under this tag, not every release, so it leans toward games that sold — a percentile here is a harder test than the same percentile across the whole store would be.
About
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
- Developer
- EA Redwood Shores
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Genre
- Horror
- Released
- Jan 9, 2009
- Steam app ID
- 17470
- Data updated
- Oct 17, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.