How much revenue did Deadnaut: Signal Lost make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadnaut: Signal Lost sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadnaut: Signal Lost sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 96 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before the cut; from 96 reviews (Very 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 Deadnaut: Signal Lost out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadnaut: Signal Lost's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–30k

best case 26k (Mainframe Defenders)

Games like Deadnaut: Signal Lost

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–30k copies

≈ $24k–$93k after Steam's cut

from ~370 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mainframe Defenders at ≈ 20k–32k copies, ≈ $32k–$87k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 102.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Tactics (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Tactical RPG, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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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