How much revenue did The American Dream make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The American Dream sell?

Q: How many copies did The American Dream sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 130 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$67k before Steam's cut; from 130 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 The American Dream and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The American Dream's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45k–328k

best case 4.6M (Fallout 76)

Games like The American Dream

A typical game among these

≈ 45k–328k copies

≈ $157k–$2.7M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Fallout 76 at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $38.4M–$103.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 106 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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