How much revenue did DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition make?

$866k–$2.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition sell?

631k to 1.0M copies, based on its 13k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 631k–1.0M; $866k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before the cut; from 13k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15.6M–42.1M

best case 56.6M (Stardew Valley)

Games like DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 15.6M–42.1M copies

≈ $81.1M–$150.7M after Steam's cut

from ~553k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.2M–70.1M copies, ≈ $177.9M–$478.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (2 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, and none of them 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 70 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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Stardew Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 43.2M–70.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $177.9M–$478.3M after Steam's cut $323.4M–$735.8M before the cut	$14.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Farming SimPixel Graphics
Undertale 2015	Est. copies ≈ 16.6M–27.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.6M–$122.6M after Steam's cut $82.9M–$188.7M before the cut	$9.99	340k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great SoundtrackStory Rich
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Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.9M–50.1M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.3M–$113.8M after Steam's cut $77.0M–$175.1M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
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