How much revenue did DEBUG DEADLINE make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEBUG DEADLINE sell?

Q: How many copies did DEBUG DEADLINE sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 67 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 67 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 DEBUG DEADLINE out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DEBUG DEADLINE's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139–32k

best case 4.6M (Fallout 76)

Games like DEBUG DEADLINE

The middle of these games

≈ 139–32k copies

≈ $160–$118k after Steam's cut

from ~31 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (4 of 8), 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: Fallout 76 at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $38.3M–$102.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 14k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (4 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $40.
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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