How much revenue did From the Depths make?

$2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did From the Depths sell?

Q: How many copies did From the Depths sell?

319k to 518k copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 319k–518k; $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.1M before Steam's cut; from 13k reviews (Very 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 From the Depths and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including From the Depths's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24.0M–92.8M

best case 129.3M (Terraria)

Games like From the Depths

A typical game among these

≈ 24.0M–92.8M copies

≈ $258.9M–$475.7M after Steam's cut

from ~875k 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: Terraria at ≈ 98.5M–160.1M copies, ≈ $270.6M–$727.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2023, and none of them 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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Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 98.5M–160.1M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $270.6M–$727.5M after Steam's cut $492.0M–$1119.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.6M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
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