How much revenue did DEPLOYMENT make?

$145k–$389k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEPLOYMENT sell?

Q: How many copies did DEPLOYMENT sell?

35k to 57k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 35k–57k; $145k–$389k after Steam's cut $263k–$599k 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 DEPLOYMENT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEPLOYMENT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–400k

best case 1.5M (DDNet)

Games like DEPLOYMENT

A typical game among these

≈ 32k–400k copies

≈ $124k–$748k 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.

Best case: DDNet at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 267 reviews in their first month; the range was 192 to 749.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (5 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Precision Platformer.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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