How much revenue did DogDogDog make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DogDogDog sell?

Q: How many copies did DogDogDog sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 52 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 DogDogDog out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DogDogDog's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 297k–565k

best case 1.5M (Layers of Fear (2016))

Games like DogDogDog

The middle of these games

≈ 297k–565k copies

≈ $1.8M–$6.7M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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: Layers of Fear (2016) at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $6.3M–$17.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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