How much revenue did Projected Dreams make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Projected Dreams sell?

Q: How many copies did Projected Dreams sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 148 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut; from 148 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 Projected Dreams and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Projected Dreams's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 169k–411k

best case 3.6M (OneShot)

Games like Projected Dreams

A typical game among these

≈ 169k–411k copies

≈ $959k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: OneShot at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $7.5M–$20.1M 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 Puzzle (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Indie + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 79 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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