How much revenue did Dreams of Aether make?

$39k–$105k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dreams of Aether sell?

Q: How many copies did Dreams of Aether sell?

47k to 77k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–77k; $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$161k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Dreams of Aether and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dreams of Aether's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 326k–440k

best case 406k (Pixel Strike 3D)

Games like Dreams of Aether

A typical game among these

≈ 326k–440k copies

≈ $2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Pixel Strike 3D at ≈ 310k–503k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 3k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Arcade (5 of 8) and Competitive (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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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