How much revenue did LOCKDOWN Protocol make?

$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LOCKDOWN Protocol sell?

Q: How many copies did LOCKDOWN Protocol sell?

496k to 805k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496k–805k; $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.6M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 LOCKDOWN Protocol and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including LOCKDOWN Protocol's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 260k–380k

best case 4.2M (Deceit)

Games like LOCKDOWN Protocol

A typical game among these

≈ 260k–380k copies

≈ $950k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Deceit at ≈ 3.2M–5.1M copies. 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 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Social Deduction (6 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Social Deduction. The breakout hits carry PvP + Horror + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 1 of the 8 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Deceit 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.1M 9.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	92k reviews Mostly Positive	PvPMultiplayer
Dread Hunger 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.9M 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	46k reviews Mixed	MultiplayerSurvival
Feign 2025	Est. copies ≈ 157k–256k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $216k–$581k after Steam's cut $393k–$893k before Steam's cut	$4.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessCasual
Town of Salem 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 229k–372k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	9k reviews Mixed	Free to PlaySocial Deduction
Unfortunate Spacemen 2020	Est. copies ≈ 187k–305k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Very Positive	Survival HorrorInvestigation
Fear Surrounds 2021	Est. copies ≈ 269k–437k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerHorror
In Silence 2021	Est. copies ≈ 296k–482k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $815k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Project Winter 2019	Est. copies ≈ 549k–893k 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	19k reviews Very Positive	Team-BasedSnow