How much revenue did DogDogDog make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DogDogDog sell?

Q: How many copies did DogDogDog sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 55 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 55 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 DogDogDog and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DogDogDog's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 300k–576k

best case 1.5M (Layers of Fear (2016))

Games like DogDogDog

A typical game among these

≈ 300k–576k copies

≈ $1.8M–$6.8M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Layers of Fear (2016) at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$17.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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 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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