How much revenue did Depth make?

$10.1M–$27.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Depth sell?

Q: How many copies did Depth sell?

1.8M to 3.0M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–3.0M; $10.1M–$27.3M after Steam's cut $18.4M–$42.0M before the cut; from 33k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Depth out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Depth's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–893k

best case 1.6M (BioShock™ 2 Remastered)

Games like Depth

The middle of these games

≈ 56k–893k copies

≈ $305k–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: BioShock™ 2 Remastered at ≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 527 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 399 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (5 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Story Rich, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 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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BioShock™ 2 Remastered 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M 6.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before the cut	$19.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	FPSAction
BioShock® 2 2010	Est. copies ≈ 946k–1.5M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.2M–$14.0M after Steam's cut $9.5M–$21.5M before the cut	$19.99	15k reviews Very Positive	FPSAction
Sunkenland 2023	Est. copies ≈ 592k–962k 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.5M before the cut	$19.99	24k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessOpen World Survival Craft
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