How much revenue did Dreams of Pain make?

$95–$255 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dreams of Pain sell?

Q: How many copies did Dreams of Pain sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $95–$255 after Steam's cut $173–$393 before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 213k–516k

best case 1.2M (Mouthwashing)

Games like Dreams of Pain

The middle of these games

≈ 213k–516k copies

≈ $637k–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Mouthwashing at ≈ 952k–1.5M copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 219 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $13.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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