How much revenue did Deadly Desire make?

$61–$164 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadly Desire sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadly Desire sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $61–$164 after Steam's cut $111–$253 before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 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.

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–17k

best case 4.7M (Spec Ops: The Line)

Games like Deadly Desire

The middle of these games

≈ 163–17k copies

≈ $1k–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~26 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Spec Ops: The Line at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (5 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Third-Person Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 3 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 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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Spec Ops: The Line 2012	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M 2165x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	56k reviews Very Positive	Story RichThird-Person Shooter
Total Rendition 2022	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2 reviews 2 user reviews	Early AccessModern
Alex Jones: NWO Wars 2024	Est. copies ≈ 45k–73k 70x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $221k–$594k after Steam's cut $401k–$913k before the cut	$17.76	2k reviews Very Positive	ActionArcade
REDSIDE episode 1 2022	Est. copies ≈ 670–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut	$7.99	27 reviews Mixed	ActionTop-Down Shooter
Ghost Mission 2023	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $96–$257 after Steam's cut $175–$396 before the cut	$6.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	Top-Down ShooterShooter
Operation: Pinkeye 2022	Est. copies ≈ 620–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut	$9.99	25 reviews Mostly Positive	Retro1990's
They're Alive! 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut	$4.99	81 reviews Mixed	ActionAdventure
Salvation Hours 2024	Est. copies ≈ 149–242 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut	$9.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	IndieAction-Adventure