How much revenue did The Devil is in the Details make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Devil is in the Details sell?

Q: How many copies did The Devil is in the Details sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 69 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 69 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 The Devil is in the Details and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Devil is in the Details's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 402k–2.0M

best case 2.2M (Bodycam)

Games like The Devil is in the Details

A typical game among these

≈ 402k–2.0M copies

≈ $1.7M–$23.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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: Bodycam at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 75 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Immersive Sim (5 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Realistic, priced around $33.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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).

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