How much revenue did Projected Dreams make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Projected Dreams sell?

Q: How many copies did Projected Dreams sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 148 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut; from 148 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 Projected Dreams out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Projected Dreams's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 168k–410k

best case 3.5M (OneShot)

Games like Projected Dreams

The middle of these games

≈ 168k–410k copies

≈ $953k–$2.1M 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: OneShot at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Story Rich (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Indie + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2022, 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 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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