How much revenue did Deliver Us Mars make?

$617k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deliver Us Mars sell?

Q: How many copies did Deliver Us Mars sell?

75k to 122k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 75k–122k; $617k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Deliver Us Mars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deliver Us Mars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–6.8M

best case 23.2M (Half-Life 2)

Games like Deliver Us Mars

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–6.8M copies

≈ $47.1M–$94.6M after Steam's cut

from ~136k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Half-Life 2 at ≈ 17.6M–28.7M copies, ≈ $48.5M–$130.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 93k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (8 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Sci-fi, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2025, and 1 of your 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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