How much revenue did Deep Under the Sky make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deep Under the Sky sell?

Q: How many copies did Deep Under the Sky sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before the cut; from 59 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 Deep Under the Sky out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deep Under the Sky's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 133k–647k

best case 900k (Tricky Towers)

Games like Deep Under the Sky

The middle of these games

≈ 133k–647k copies

≈ $363k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Tricky Towers at ≈ 686k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Physics (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Puzzle, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2018, 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 38 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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Zuma Deluxe 2006	Est. copies ≈ 429k–697k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $588k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut	$4.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Match 3Puzzle
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