How much revenue did Deputinization make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deputinization sell?

Q: How many copies did Deputinization sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 53 reviews (Very 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 Deputinization and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deputinization's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 70k–450k

best case 2.0M (Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™)

Games like Deputinization

A typical game among these

≈ 70k–450k copies

≈ $205k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Side Scroller (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 435 reviews in their first month; the range was 245 to 657.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Side Scroller (3 of 8) and Survival (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Historical + World War I, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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