How much revenue did Deceive Inc. make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deceive Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Deceive Inc. sell?

195k to 318k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 195k–318k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.4M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Deceive Inc. and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deceive Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–113k

best case 8.8M (Battlefield™ V)

Games like Deceive Inc.

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–113k copies

≈ $101k–$272k after Steam's cut

from ~971 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Battlefield™ V at ≈ 6.7M–10.9M copies, ≈ $92.2M–$247.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 277 reviews in their first month; the range was 47 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Social Deduction (5 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + World War II, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry FPS + Singleplayer + World War II; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 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 70 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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