How much revenue did Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum make?

$77k–$206k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 866 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–35k; $77k–$206k after Steam's cut $139k–$317k before the cut; from 866 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.7M

best case 3.8M (Brotato)

Games like Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–2.7M copies

≈ $7.6M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~53k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action Roguelike (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Brotato at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 110 to 42k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (4 of 8) and Arena Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Action Roguelike, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of your 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 61 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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