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 the cut; from 69 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 The Devil is in the Details out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Devil is in the Details's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 343k–408k

best case 2.0M (Bodycam)

Games like The Devil is in the Details

The middle of these games

≈ 343k–408k copies

≈ $760k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Bodycam at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Immersive Sim (5 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Wargame, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry FPS + Military + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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