How much revenue did Deported: Drain the Swamp make?

$463–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Deported: Drain the Swamp sell?

Q: How many copies did Deported: Drain the Swamp sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 56 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $463–$1k after Steam's cut $842–$2k before the cut; from 56 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 Deported: Drain the Swamp out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Deported: Drain the Swamp's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 765–4k

best case 5k (CosmoOdyssey:Trip to Mars)

Games like Deported: Drain the Swamp

The middle of these games

≈ 765–4k copies

≈ $3k–$15k after Steam's cut

from ~71 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: CosmoOdyssey:Trip to Mars at ≈ 4k–6k copies, ≈ $2k–$6k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 116.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Comedy (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space Sim + Colony Sim, priced around $2.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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