How much revenue did Deadzone: Rogue make?

$2.8M–$7.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadzone: Rogue sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadzone: Rogue sell?

415k to 674k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 415k–674k; $2.8M–$7.7M after Steam's cut $5.2M–$11.8M before Steam's cut; from 17k 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 Deadzone: Rogue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadzone: Rogue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 517k–1.1M

best case 2.5M (Minion Masters)

Games like Deadzone: Rogue

A typical game among these

≈ 517k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.8M–$6.6M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Minion Masters at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Rogue-lite (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading Card Game + Turn-Based Tactics.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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 52 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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