How much revenue did Dream Sketcher make?

$40k–$109k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dream Sketcher sell?

Q: How many copies did Dream Sketcher sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 495 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $40k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$167k before the cut; from 495 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 Dream Sketcher out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dream Sketcher's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–10.0M

best case 27.8M (Baldur's Gate 3)

Games like Dream Sketcher

The middle of these games

≈ 4.1M–10.0M copies

≈ $66.9M–$220.9M after Steam's cut

from ~137k 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: Baldur's Gate 3 at ≈ 21.2M–34.4M copies, ≈ $349.3M–$939.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 268k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Character Customization (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Character Customization + Choices Matter, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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