How much revenue did The Deed make?

$50k–$135k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Deed sell?

Q: How many copies did The Deed sell?

184k to 299k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 184k–299k; $50k–$135k after Steam's cut $91k–$207k before the cut; from 4k 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 The Deed out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Deed's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–54k

best case 73k (Just Ignore Them)

Games like The Deed

The middle of these games

≈ 23k–54k copies

≈ $27k–$64k after Steam's cut

from ~605 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.

Best case: Just Ignore Them at ≈ 55k–90k copies, ≈ $61k–$164k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Crime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Gore, priced around $4.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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