How much revenue did Déjà Vu make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Déjà Vu sell?

Q: How many copies did Déjà Vu sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 14 reviews (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 Déjà Vu and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Déjà Vu's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–42k

best case 110k (The Gardens Between)

Games like Déjà Vu

A typical game among these

≈ 12k–42k copies

≈ $157k–$458k after Steam's cut

from ~720 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Puzzle (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 Gardens Between at ≈ 84k–136k copies, ≈ $462k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 137 reviews in their first month; the range was 23 to 463.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Short + Time Manipulation, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 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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P3TT 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	164 reviews Mixed	FPSAction
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MOUTHOLE 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	206 reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsAtmospheric
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