How much revenue did Dead Dreams make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dead Dreams sell?

Q: How many copies did Dead Dreams sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 67 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $7k–$15k before Steam's cut; from 67 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 Dead Dreams and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dead Dreams's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 561k–876k

best case 2.9M (OMORI)

Games like Dead Dreams

A typical game among these

≈ 561k–876k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: OMORI at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Indie + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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 70 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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