How much revenue did Dreaming Sarah make?

$231k–$621k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dreaming Sarah sell?

Q: How many copies did Dreaming Sarah sell?

140k to 228k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 140k–228k; $231k–$621k after Steam's cut $420k–$955k before the cut; from 3k 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 Dreaming Sarah out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dreaming Sarah's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 368k–609k

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Dreaming Sarah

The middle of these games

≈ 368k–609k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Platformer, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Female Protagonist + Beautiful + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2019, 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 36 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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