How much revenue did Sapper's bad dream make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sapper's bad dream sell?

Q: How many copies did Sapper's bad dream sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut; from 41 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 Sapper's bad dream and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sapper's bad dream's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 92k–242k

best case 656k (A Game About Digging A Hole™)

Games like Sapper's bad dream

A typical game among these

≈ 92k–242k copies

≈ $337k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: A Game About Digging A Hole™ at ≈ 500k–812k copies, ≈ $686k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 586 reviews in their first month; the range was 18 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Voxel, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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