How much revenue did Dreams of Pain make?

$95–$255 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dreams of Pain sell?

Q: How many copies did Dreams of Pain sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $95–$255 after Steam's cut $173–$393 before Steam's cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Only 7 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Dreams of Pain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dreams of Pain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 202k–409k

best case 782k (Before Your Eyes)

Games like Dreams of Pain

A typical game among these

≈ 202k–409k copies

≈ $585k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Before Your Eyes at ≈ 595k–968k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 219 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Emotional + Narrative, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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