How much revenue did Bad Dream: Purgatory make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bad Dream: Purgatory sell?

Q: How many copies did Bad Dream: Purgatory sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 45 reviews (Mostly 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 Bad Dream: Purgatory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bad Dream: Purgatory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–1.4M

best case 8.5M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like Bad Dream: Purgatory

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–1.4M copies

≈ $6.6M–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~38k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $71.2M–$191.3M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 290 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (8 of 8) and Multiple Endings (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Emotional + Futuristic + Robots; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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