How much revenue did Super Dark Deception make?

$86k–$230k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Super Dark Deception sell?

Q: How many copies did Super Dark Deception sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 697 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $86k–$230k after Steam's cut $155k–$354k before Steam's cut; from 697 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 Super Dark Deception and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Dark Deception's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–25k

best case 466k (Haste)

Games like Super Dark Deception

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–25k copies

≈ $12k–$51k after Steam's cut

from ~450 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Haste at ≈ 355k–577k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.2M after Steam's cut. 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 104 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Fast-Paced + Female Protagonist + Rogue-lite; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 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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