How much revenue did My Dream Setup make?

$282k–$758k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Dream Setup sell?

Q: How many copies did My Dream Setup sell?

171k to 278k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 171k–278k; $282k–$758k after Steam's cut $512k–$1.2M before the cut; from 7k reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.9M–12.8M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like My Dream Setup

The middle of these games

≈ 9.9M–12.8M copies

≈ $92.4M–$197.5M after Steam's cut

from ~303k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Building (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 184k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 153k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (4 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Farming Sim + Pixel Graphics + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2025, and 3 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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