How much revenue did INVERSUS Deluxe make?

$67k–$179k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did INVERSUS Deluxe sell?

Q: How many copies did INVERSUS Deluxe sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 388 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $67k–$179k after Steam's cut $121k–$275k before Steam's cut; from 388 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 INVERSUS Deluxe and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including INVERSUS Deluxe's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–301k

best case 2.9M (Ultimate Chicken Horse)

Games like INVERSUS Deluxe

A typical game among these

≈ 45k–301k copies

≈ $239k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Party (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: Ultimate Chicken Horse at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party (4 of 8) and 4 Player Local (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 25x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
Boomerang Fu 2020	Est. copies ≈ 76k–124k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $313k–$842k after Steam's cut $570k–$1.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	4 Player LocalLocal Multiplayer
12 orbits 2016	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut	$1.99	293 reviews Very Positive	Local MultiplayerParty Game
MageQuit 2019	Est. copies ≈ 41k–67k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $170k–$457k after Steam's cut $309k–$703k before Steam's cut	$14.99	1k reviews Very Positive	MagicPhysics
GigaBash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 54k–87k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $368k–$990k after Steam's cut $669k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	SuperheroAction
Nex Machina 2017	Est. copies ≈ 76k–123k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $416k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $756k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Twin Stick Shooter Bullet Hell
Rival Megagun 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut	$14.99	76 reviews Very Positive	Bullet HellPvP