How much revenue did Deathtrap make?

$610k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deathtrap sell?

Q: How many copies did Deathtrap sell?

111k to 180k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 111k–180k; $610k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut; from 2k 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 Deathtrap out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deathtrap's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 311k–602k

best case 1.6M (Kingdom Two Crowns)

Games like Deathtrap

The middle of these games

≈ 311k–602k copies

≈ $3.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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.

Best case: Kingdom Two Crowns at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.6M–$17.8M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + City Builder, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Minimalist + City Builder + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, 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 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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