How much revenue did Deported: Drain the Swamp make?

$463–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deported: Drain the Swamp sell?

Q: How many copies did Deported: Drain the Swamp sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 56 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $463–$1k after Steam's cut $842–$2k before Steam's cut; from 56 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 Deported: Drain the Swamp and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deported: Drain the Swamp's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 651–911

best case 5k (CosmoOdyssey:Trip to Mars)

Games like Deported: Drain the Swamp

A typical game among these

≈ 651–911 copies

≈ $1k–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~23 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: CosmoOdyssey:Trip to Mars at ≈ 4k–7k copies, ≈ $2k–$6k 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 13 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 116.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Comedy (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Side Scroller, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Cute + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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