How much revenue did Demon Loop make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Demon Loop sell?

Q: How many copies did Demon Loop sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 41 reviews (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 Demon Loop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Demon Loop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 634k–1.5M

best case 6.5M (Balatro)

Games like Demon Loop

A typical game among these

≈ 634k–1.5M copies

≈ $3.5M–$18.2M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: Balatro at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies, ≈ $20.5M–$55.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (8 of 8) and Deckbuilding (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Roguelike Deckbuilder, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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 38 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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