How much revenue did The Surreal Imaginarium make?

$436–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Surreal Imaginarium sell?

Q: How many copies did The Surreal Imaginarium sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $436–$1k after Steam's cut $792–$2k before Steam's cut; from 16 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Surreal Imaginarium and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Surreal Imaginarium's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42k–260k

best case 417k (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE)

Games like The Surreal Imaginarium

A typical game among these

≈ 42k–260k copies

≈ $292k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE at ≈ 318k–516k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Time Manipulation, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 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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