How much revenue did Dream Sketcher make?

$41k–$109k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dream Sketcher sell?

Q: How many copies did Dream Sketcher sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 496 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $41k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$168k before Steam's cut; from 496 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 Dream Sketcher and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dream Sketcher's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–10.0M

best case 28.0M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Dream Sketcher

A typical game among these

≈ 4.1M–10.0M copies

≈ $67.4M–$222.3M after Steam's cut

from ~137k 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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.3M–34.6M copies, ≈ $351.5M–$945.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Character Customization (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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