How much revenue did Desta: The Memories Between make?

$19k–$50k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desta: The Memories Between sell?

Q: How many copies did Desta: The Memories Between sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 160 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before Steam's cut; from 160 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 Desta: The Memories Between and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desta: The Memories Between's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 501k–1.1M

best case 1.4M (Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition)

Games like Desta: The Memories Between

A typical game among these

≈ 501k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.5M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-lite (5 of 8) and Turn-Based Tactics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action RPG + Third Person, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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