How much revenue did The Deed: Dynasty make?

$35k–$95k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Deed: Dynasty sell?

Q: How many copies did The Deed: Dynasty sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; $35k–$95k after Steam's cut $64k–$146k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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: Dynasty and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Deed: Dynasty's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–59k

best case 242k (The Deed)

Games like The Deed: Dynasty

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–59k copies

≈ $27k–$85k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Crime (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: The Deed at ≈ 185k–300k copies, ≈ $50k–$135k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Crime (4 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with RPGMaker + Crime, priced around $1.
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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