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How many copies did Deadly Desire sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$61–$164 after Steam's cut $111–$253 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 Deadly Desire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadly Desire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–17k
best case 4.7M (Spec Ops: The Line)
Games like Deadly Desire

A typical game among these

≈ 163–17k copies

≈ $1k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~26 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: Spec Ops: The Line at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 1k.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Shooter (5 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Third-Person Shooter.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2024, 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 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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Est. copies
≈ 3.6M–5.8M
2169x vs typical
SteamSpy 2M–5M
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Free
56k reviews
Very Positive
Story RichThird-Person Shooter
Total Rendition
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Est. copies
≈ 50–81
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
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2 user reviews
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Alex Jones: NWO Wars
2024
Est. copies
≈ 45k–74k
70x vs typical
SteamSpy 100k–200k
Est. revenue
$221k–$594k after Steam's cut $402k–$914k before Steam's cut
$17.76
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Very Positive
ActionArcade
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2022
Est. copies
≈ 670–1k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut
$7.99
27 reviews
Mixed
ActionTop-Down Shooter
Ghost Mission
2023
Est. copies
≈ 50–81
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$96–$257 after Steam's cut $175–$396 before Steam's cut
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2 reviews
2 user reviews
Top-Down ShooterShooter
Operation: Pinkeye
2022
Est. copies
≈ 620–1k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut
$9.99
25 reviews
Mostly Positive
Retro1990's
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Est. copies
≈ 2k–3k
3.1x vs typical
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Est. revenue
$3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut
$4.99
80 reviews
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Est. copies
≈ 149–242
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before Steam's cut
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6 reviews
6 user reviews
IndieAction-Adventure

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