How much revenue did DeskScapes make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DeskScapes sell?

Q: How many copies did DeskScapes sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 64 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 64 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left DeskScapes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DeskScapes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 199k–539k

best case 5.8M (Blender)

Games like DeskScapes

The middle of these games

≈ 199k–539k copies

≈ $2.0M–$4.9M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Blender at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 291 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Software (8 of 8) and Video Production (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Software + Game Development, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Game Development + 3D + Difficult; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2021, 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 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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