How much revenue did Dead Drop make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Drop sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Drop sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 161 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut; from 161 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 Dead Drop and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Drop's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–159k

best case 222k (Puyo Puyo™Tetris®)

Games like Dead Drop

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–159k copies

≈ $565k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Puyo Puyo™Tetris® at ≈ 170k–275k copies, ≈ $932k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 305.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and 2D Fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Competitive, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 38 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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