How much revenue did Depths of Sanity make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Depths of Sanity sell?

Q: How many copies did Depths of Sanity sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 93 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut; from 93 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 Depths of Sanity out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Depths of Sanity's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 54k–86k

best case 229k (We Need To Go Deeper)

Games like Depths of Sanity

The middle of these games

≈ 54k–86k copies

≈ $300k–$395k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: We Need To Go Deeper at ≈ 174k–283k copies, ≈ $766k–$2.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 243 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 239 to 393.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Underwater (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Lovecraftian + Hand-drawn, priced around $18. The breakout hits carry Hand-drawn + Lovecraftian + Roguevania; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2022, 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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