How much revenue did Deadly Joy make?

$245–$658 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadly Joy sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadly Joy sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $245–$658 after Steam's cut $446–$1k before Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (Mixed)

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 Deadly Joy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadly Joy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.6M–8.7M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like Deadly Joy

A typical game among these

≈ 3.6M–8.7M copies

≈ $57.5M–$68.6M after Steam's cut

from ~117k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 45k reviews in their first month; the range was 24k to 143k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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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