How much revenue did Deathtrap make?

$611k–$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 181k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 111k–181k; $611k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Deathtrap and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deathtrap's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 329k–928k

best case 1.6M (Kingdom Two Crowns)

Games like Deathtrap

A typical game among these

≈ 329k–928k copies

≈ $3.2M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Kingdom Two Crowns at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $6.7M–$17.9M 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 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + City Builder, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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