How much revenue did The Deed make?

$50k–$135k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Deed sell?

Q: How many copies did The Deed sell?

185k to 300k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 185k–300k; $50k–$135k after Steam's cut $91k–$208k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 The Deed and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Deed's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–54k

best case 74k (Just Ignore Them)

Games like The Deed

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–54k copies

≈ $27k–$64k after Steam's cut

from ~608 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.

Best case: Just Ignore Them at ≈ 56k–92k copies, ≈ $62k–$166k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Crime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Gore, priced around $4.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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