How much revenue did Dear Esther: Landmark Edition make?

$717k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dear Esther: Landmark Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Dear Esther: Landmark Edition sell?

261k to 424k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 261k–424k; $717k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut; from 8k 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 Dear Esther: Landmark Edition and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dear Esther: Landmark Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 202k–484k

best case 1.5M (Gone Home)

Games like Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

A typical game among these

≈ 202k–484k copies

≈ $1.7M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Gone Home at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$12.9M 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 736 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Walking Simulator (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Walking Simulator + Short, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 1 of the 7 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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Dear Esther unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 152k–247k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Mostly Positive	Walking SimulatorIndie
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Gone Home 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut $8.7M–$19.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	18k reviews Mostly Positive	Walking SimulatorShort
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