How much revenue did Deer Journey make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deer Journey sell?

Q: How many copies did Deer Journey sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 75 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 936–8k

best case 336k (The Medium)

Games like Deer Journey

A typical game among these

≈ 936–8k copies

≈ $3k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~47 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: The Medium at ≈ 256k–416k copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 25 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 3k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Female Protagonist, priced around $50.
When they shipped: Only 2 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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