How much revenue did Dream make?

$120k–$323k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dream sell?

Q: How many copies did Dream sell?

49k to 79k copies, based on its 996 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 49k–79k; $120k–$323k after Steam's cut $218k–$497k before the cut; from 996 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 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dream's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–208k

best case 205k (Scanner Sombre)

Games like Dream

The middle of these games

≈ 88k–208k copies

≈ $658k–$1.2M 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: Scanner Sombre at ≈ 156k–254k copies, ≈ $301k–$809k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 486 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 479 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and VR (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Horror, priced around $7.
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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Google Earth VR 2016	Est. copies ≈ 173k–280k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Very Positive	VRFree to Play
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Riven 2024	Est. copies ≈ 71k–115k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $682k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut	$34.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleAdventure
Heaven Island - VR MMO 2015	Est. copies ≈ 100k–162k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $54k–$146k after Steam's cut $99k–$225k before the cut	$1.99	2k reviews Mixed	Walking SimulatorAdventure
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Scanner Sombre 2017	Est. copies ≈ 156k–254k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $301k–$809k after Steam's cut $547k–$1.2M before the cut	$6.99	5k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationHorror