How much revenue did The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile make?

$177k–$477k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile sell?

Q: How many copies did The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile sell?

65k to 105k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 65k–105k; $177k–$477k after Steam's cut $323k–$734k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.9M–9.3M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

The middle of these games

≈ 5.9M–9.3M copies

≈ $45.5M–$60.6M after Steam's cut

from ~145k 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.

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

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M 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 40k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 32k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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