How much revenue did Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator make?

$889k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator sell?

216k to 350k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 216k–350k; $889k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut; from 6k reviews (Very 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 Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 490k–615k

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 490k–615k copies

≈ $1.4M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is NSFW (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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.1M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 951 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share NSFW (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Utilities + Software; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 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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The Sims™ 4 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.1M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	201k reviews Very Positive	Life SimCharacter Customization
Monster Prom 2018	Est. copies ≈ 436k–708k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut	$11.99	14k reviews Very Positive	Dating SimComedy
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
Genital Jousting 2018	Est. copies ≈ 343k–557k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $659k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before Steam's cut	$6.99	11k reviews Very Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
Pizza Tower 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.9M–$26.7M after Steam's cut $18.0M–$41.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Great Soundtrack2D Platformer
Changed 2018	Est. copies ≈ 565k–919k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $776k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$4.99	19k reviews Very Positive	CuteDifficult
SteamVR unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M 5.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	87k reviews Very Positive	VRSoftware
House Party 2022	Est. copies ≈ 383k–623k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	15k reviews Very Positive	NudityMature