How much revenue did Deisim make?

$93k–$250k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deisim sell?

Q: How many copies did Deisim sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 909 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $93k–$250k after Steam's cut $169k–$384k before the cut; from 909 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 Deisim out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deisim's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 377k–4.3M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Deisim

The middle of these games

≈ 377k–4.3M copies

≈ $5.3M–$33.0M after Steam's cut

from ~35k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (8 of 8) and Sandbox (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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