How much revenue did Deer Journey make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deer Journey sell?

Q: How many copies did Deer Journey sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 75 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 Deer Journey out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deer Journey's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 887–8k

best case 332k (The Medium)

Games like Deer Journey

The middle of these games

≈ 887–8k copies

≈ $3k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~47 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: The Medium at ≈ 253k–411k copies, ≈ $3.5M–$9.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 25 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 3k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Female Protagonist, priced around $50.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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