How much revenue did DEBUG DEADLINE make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEBUG DEADLINE sell?

Q: How many copies did DEBUG DEADLINE 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; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 69 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 DEBUG DEADLINE and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEBUG DEADLINE's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139–33k

best case 4.6M (Fallout 76)

Games like DEBUG DEADLINE

A typical game among these

≈ 139–33k copies

≈ $160–$119k after Steam's cut

from ~31 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Exploration (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: Fallout 76 at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 14k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (4 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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