How much revenue did Deadly Joy make?

$245–$658 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deadly Joy sell?

Q: How many copies did Deadly Joy sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $245–$658 after Steam's cut $446–$1k before the cut; from 12 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 Deadly Joy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deadly Joy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.6M–8.5M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like Deadly Joy

The middle of these games

≈ 3.6M–8.5M copies

≈ $56.7M–$68.1M after Steam's cut

from ~115k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 45k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24k to 143k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and Co-op (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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