How much revenue did The Detective Reaper Invites make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Detective Reaper Invites sell?

Q: How many copies did The Detective Reaper Invites sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 77 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut; from 77 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 The Detective Reaper Invites and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Detective Reaper Invites's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–29k

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like The Detective Reaper Invites

A typical game among these

≈ 9k–29k copies

≈ $21k–$142k after Steam's cut

from ~657 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: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M 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 116 reviews in their first month; the range was 32 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Card Game (7 of 8) and Deckbuilding (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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