How much revenue did Deterrence make?

$204–$550 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deterrence sell?

Q: How many copies did Deterrence sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $204–$550 after Steam's cut $370–$846 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Deterrence and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deterrence's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 706k–1.3M

best case 1.6M (Bloons TD Battles)

Games like Deterrence

A typical game among these

≈ 706k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.1M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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.

Best case: Bloons TD Battles at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (5 of 8) and Tower Defense (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Competitive.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 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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