How much revenue did Garage: Bad Dream Adventure make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Garage: Bad Dream Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did Garage: Bad Dream Adventure sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 385 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$216k before the cut; from 385 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Garage: Bad Dream Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Garage: Bad Dream Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.6M–12.9M

best case 56.9M (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition)

Games like Garage: Bad Dream Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 9.6M–12.9M copies

≈ $140.0M–$303.8M after Steam's cut

from ~356k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Exploration (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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 Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition at ≈ 43.3M–70.4M copies, ≈ $595.5M–$1601.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 54k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 171k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (3 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Story Rich, priced around $50.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 61 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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