How much revenue did Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum make?

$78k–$210k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 881 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–36k; $78k–$210k after Steam's cut $142k–$323k before Steam's cut; from 881 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.7M

best case 3.9M (Brotato)

Games like Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies

≈ $7.7M–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~53k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Brotato at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 108 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Arena Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Foxhole 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.9M–$29.2M after Steam's cut $19.8M–$45.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	53k reviews Mostly Positive	Massively MultiplayerWargame
Super Animal Royale 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	45k reviews Very Positive	Battle RoyaleFree to Play
Brotato 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$10.9M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	119k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-likeSingleplayer
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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut $7.8M–$17.8M before Steam's cut	$12.99	49k reviews Very Positive	DwarfAction Roguelike
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