How much revenue did Dreadnought make?

Dreadnought is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Dreadnought sell?

Q: How many copies did Dreadnought sell?

201k to 327k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 201k–327k; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Dreadnought out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dreadnought's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–6.9M

best case 37.8M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like Dreadnought

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–6.9M copies

≈ $50.5M–$114.6M after Steam's cut

from ~85k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.8M–46.8M copies, ≈ $316.7M–$851.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sci-fi (7 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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HELLDIVERS™ 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 28.8M–46.8M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $316.7M–$851.6M after Steam's cut $575.9M–$1310.1M before the cut	$39.99	1.2M reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpPvE
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