How much revenue did The Dreamland make?

$491–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dreamland sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dreamland sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $491–$1k after Steam's cut $893–$2k before the cut; from 12 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–348k

best case 921k (The Outer Worlds)

Games like The Dreamland

The middle of these games

≈ 63k–348k copies

≈ $360k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: The Outer Worlds at ≈ 702k–1.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 819 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 36 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (5 of 8) and Action-Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Action RPG.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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