How much revenue did Deponia make?

$2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deponia sell?

Q: How many copies did Deponia sell?

916k to 1.5M copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 916k–1.5M; $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut $4.6M–$10.4M before the cut; from 14k 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 Deponia out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Deponia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25.4M–111.7M

best case 132.9M (Grand Theft Auto V Legacy)

Games like Deponia

The middle of these games

≈ 25.4M–111.7M copies

≈ $302.1M–$480.2M after Steam's cut

from ~851k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (2 of 4), 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: Grand Theft Auto V Legacy at ≈ 101.3M–164.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (2 of 4) and Third Person (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Crime.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2016, 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 52 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.3M–164.6M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut $548.3M–$1247.4M before the cut	$59.99	439k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Borderlands 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 19.7M–32.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $108.4M–$291.6M after Steam's cut $197.2M–$448.6M before the cut	$19.99	312k reviews Very Positive	LootShooter