How much revenue did Bad Dream: Purgatory make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Dream: Purgatory sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Dream: Purgatory sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 45 reviews (Mostly 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 Bad Dream: Purgatory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Dream: Purgatory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.4M

best case 8.6M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Bad Dream: Purgatory

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–1.4M copies

≈ $6.6M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $72.1M–$193.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 288 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choices Matter (8 of 8) and Multiple Endings (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Emotional + Futuristic + Robots; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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