How much revenue did Dead Drop make?

$8k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Drop sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Drop sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 161 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before the cut; from 161 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 Dead Drop out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Drop's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–158k

best case 222k (Puyo Puyo™Tetris®)

Games like Dead Drop

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–158k copies

≈ $561k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Puyo Puyo™Tetris® at ≈ 169k–275k copies, ≈ $931k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 305.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and 2D Fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Competitive, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. 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 38 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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