How much revenue did Deep Dark Space make?

$272–$732 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deep Dark Space sell?

Q: How many copies did Deep Dark Space sell?

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $272–$732 after Steam's cut $495–$1k before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 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 Deep Dark Space and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deep Dark Space's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–31k

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Deep Dark Space

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–31k copies

≈ $2k–$26k after Steam's cut

from ~59 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M 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 247 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Social Deduction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + VR + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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