How much revenue did DEEP FOG make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEEP FOG sell?

Q: How many copies did DEEP FOG sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 149 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut; from 149 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 DEEP FOG and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEEP FOG's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–68k

best case 187k (The Sinking City Remastered)

Games like DEEP FOG

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–68k copies

≈ $34k–$551k after Steam's cut

from ~758 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Sinking City Remastered at ≈ 143k–232k 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 186 reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 839.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (5 of 8) and Lovecraftian (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Lovecraftian + Third-Person Shooter, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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