Genre FPSReleased Nov 17, 2008

Left 4 Dead

Developed and published by Valve
Estimated lifetime revenue
$4.31M
Gross, before Steam's cut
Net revenue
$3.01M
After Steam's 30% cut
Units sold
824.5K
≈ 12 sales per review
Confidence
High
Based on 68,472 reviews
How we estimate →
Reviews
68,472
Overwhelmingly Positive96% positive
Playing now
657
25-day peak 834 · low 249
New reviews, last 25 days
+297
≈ 12 a day since Sep 16

History

Sep 16 – Oct 11

68.5K68.4K68.3K68.2K
Sep 16Sep 28Oct 11

Total Steam reviews. The slope is the signal: a steady climb long after launch means the game is still selling.

How it compares

FPS →

Against the 120 most-reviewed FPS games on Steam

Outearns 24% of them — in the bottom quarter of the group.

Median
$17.62M
145,567 reviews
Top 10% start at
$89.14M
This game
$4.31M
21st 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

From Valve (the creators of Counter-Strike, Half-Life and more) comes Left 4 Dead, a co-op action horror game for the PC and Xbox 360 that casts up to four players in an epic struggle for survival against swarming zombie hordes and terrifying mutant monsters.

Developer
Valve
Publisher
Valve
Genre
FPS
Released
Nov 17, 2008
Steam app ID
500
Data updated
Oct 11, 2026
Estimates, not reported sales. No developer-published figures are on file for this game. See the methodology for how the numbers are built.