How much revenue did Dream Tactics make?

$86k–$231k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dream Tactics sell?

Q: How many copies did Dream Tactics sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 701 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $86k–$231k after Steam's cut $156k–$356k before Steam's cut; from 701 reviews (Very 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 Tactics and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dream Tactics's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 696k–943k

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Dream Tactics

A typical game among these

≈ 696k–943k copies

≈ $2.7M–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M 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 Anime (4 of 8) and Turn-Based (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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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Valkyria Chronicles™ 2014	Est. copies ≈ 746k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.5M–$17.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Very Positive	AnimeStrategy
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 2014	Est. copies ≈ 583k–947k too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.6M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	JRPG Story Rich
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga 2022	Est. copies ≈ 369k–600k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.5M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	15k reviews Very Positive	Tactical RPGRPG
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M 48x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Garfield Kart 2015	Est. copies ≈ 691k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $948k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Cult ClassicCombat Racing
Sakura Spirit 2014	Est. copies ≈ 383k–622k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Mostly Positive	AnimeVisual Novel
TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children 2020	Est. copies ≈ 246k–399k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Very Positive	CRPGTactical RPG
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Complete Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 216k–351k too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.0M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	7k reviews Very Positive	StrategyAnime