How much revenue did Dezinsector make?

$449–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dezinsector sell?

Q: How many copies did Dezinsector sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $449–$1k after Steam's cut $816–$2k before the cut; from 22 reviews (Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–376k

best case 706k (Orcs Must Die!)

Games like Dezinsector

The middle of these games

≈ 148k–376k copies

≈ $516k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Orcs Must Die! at ≈ 538k–875k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 421 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 58 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (8 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Third Person, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2023, 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 79 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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