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How many copies did Deja Vu sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$69–$184 after Steam's cut $125–$283 before the cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 313k–458k
best case 38.6M (Portal 2)
Games like Deja Vu

The middle of these games

≈ 313k–458k copies

≈ $1.5M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Puzzle-Platformer (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + First-Person + 3D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2007 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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