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How many copies did Interrogation: You will be deceived sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 11k–18k
$39k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$163k before Steam's cut
from 383 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Interrogation: You will be deceived and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Interrogation: You will be deceived's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 235k–781k
best case 3.1M (L.A. Noire)
Games like Interrogation: You will be deceived

A typical game among these

≈ 235k–781k copies

≈ $1.7M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: L.A. Noire at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $12.8M–$34.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Detective (7 of 8) and Crime (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Crime, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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