How much revenue did Dive The Depths make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dive The Depths sell?

Q: How many copies did Dive The Depths sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 112 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before Steam's cut; from 112 reviews (Mostly 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 Dive The Depths and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dive The Depths's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 359k–946k

best case 1.6M (Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor)

Games like Dive The Depths

A typical game among these

≈ 359k–946k copies

≈ $1.9M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~20k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 41k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Action Roguelike, priced around $13.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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