How much revenue did Deep Among the Swarm make?

$9k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deep Among the Swarm sell?

Q: How many copies did Deep Among the Swarm sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 141 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $9k–$23k after Steam's cut $16k–$36k before the cut; from 141 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 Deep Among the Swarm out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deep Among the Swarm's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.4M

best case 1.9M (They Are Billions)

Games like Deep Among the Swarm

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–1.4M copies

≈ $6.6M–$9.8M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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: They Are Billions at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.2M–$32.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (5 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Colony Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Survival + RTS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.8M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$15.1M before the cut	$9.99	21k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MilitaryCity Builder
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They Are Billions 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.8M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.5M before the cut	$29.99	51k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingColony Sim
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