How much revenue did Dream Engines: Nomad Cities make?

$128k–$343k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dream Engines: Nomad Cities sell?

Q: How many copies did Dream Engines: Nomad Cities sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 624 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $128k–$343k after Steam's cut $232k–$528k before Steam's cut; from 624 reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Dream Engines: Nomad Cities and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dream Engines: Nomad Cities's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 243k–1.3M

best case 7.7M (Factorio)

Games like Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

A typical game among these

≈ 243k–1.3M copies

≈ $2.8M–$15.3M after Steam's cut

from ~22k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Factorio at ≈ 5.9M–9.5M copies, ≈ $56.4M–$151.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (6 of 8) and Automation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2026, and 3 of the 8 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 36 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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