How many copies did Deeply Dark: Found Footage sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 210 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Deeply Dark: Found Footage make?

Deeply Dark: Found Footage is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Deeply Dark: Found Footage?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 5k–8k; from 210 reviews (Mixed)

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 Deeply Dark: Found Footage and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deeply Dark: Found Footage's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.9M

best case 3.8M (Mirror 2: Project X)

Games like Deeply Dark: Found Footage

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.9M copies

≈ $2.9M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~35k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mirror 2: Project X at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Match 3 + Anime, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2025, and 2 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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