How much revenue did Dread Hunger make?

Dread Hunger is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Dread Hunger sell?

Q: How many copies did Dread Hunger sell?

1.1M to 1.9M copies, based on its 46k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.9M; from 46k 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 Dread Hunger and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dread Hunger's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 329k–3.0M

best case 29.9M (Among Us)

Games like Dread Hunger

A typical game among these

≈ 329k–3.0M copies

≈ $2.0M–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Among Us at ≈ 22.8M–37.0M copies, ≈ $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Social Deduction (6 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Space, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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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