How much revenue did dEskape make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did dEskape sell?

Q: How many copies did dEskape sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 87 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 87 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 dEskape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including dEskape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–7k

best case 336k (Realm Grinder)

Games like dEskape

A typical game among these

≈ 5k–7k copies

≈ $14k–$18k after Steam's cut

from ~156 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Realm Grinder at ≈ 256k–416k copies. 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 98 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 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 Clicker (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Resource Management; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, and 2 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 43 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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