How much revenue did Deep Space Cache make?

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

How many copies did Deep Space Cache sell?

Q: How many copies did Deep Space Cache sell?

22k to 36k copies, based on its 897 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–36k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut; from 897 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 Deep Space Cache and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deep Space Cache's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 24k–80k

best case 458k (Nodebuster)

Games like Deep Space Cache

A typical game among these

≈ 24k–80k copies

≈ $48k–$309k after Steam's cut

from ~991 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Nodebuster at ≈ 349k–567k copies, ≈ $287k–$771k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 281 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (6 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $3.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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