How much revenue did The Deletion make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Deletion sell?

Q: How many copies did The Deletion sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 228 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before the cut; from 228 reviews (Mostly 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 The Deletion out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Deletion's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28k–37k

best case 355k (Deepest Sword)

Games like The Deletion

The middle of these games

≈ 28k–37k copies

≈ $57k–$120k after Steam's cut

from ~871 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Deepest Sword at ≈ 270k–440k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 449 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 112 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Precision Platformer (6 of 8) and 2D Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Platformer + Platformer, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Platformer + 2D + 2D Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, 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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