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How many copies did Delusions of a Lost Soul sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 372–605
$408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut
from 15 reviews (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 Delusions of a Lost Soul and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Delusions of a Lost Soul's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.4M
best case 4.6M (Poppy Playtime)
Games like Delusions of a Lost Soul

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies

≈ $4.3M–$15.2M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Poppy Playtime at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Horror + Survival Horror + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 to 2022, and none of them 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 70 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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SteamSpy 1M–2M
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4.2x vs typical
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Free
Free
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Very Positive
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