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How many copies did Depersonalization sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 170k–277k
$936k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut
from 7k reviews (Very 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 Depersonalization and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Depersonalization's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 150k–433k
best case 550k (Magicraft)
Games like Depersonalization

A typical game among these

≈ 150k–433k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Magicraft at ≈ 419k–681k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$5.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 10k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Lovecraftian (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $16.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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