How much revenue did The Ethereal Dream make?

$40k–$106k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Ethereal Dream sell?

Q: How many copies did The Ethereal Dream sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 290 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $40k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$164k before the cut; from 290 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 The Ethereal Dream out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Ethereal Dream's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–10k

best case 87k (Folie Fatale)

Games like The Ethereal Dream

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–10k copies

≈ $42k–$67k after Steam's cut

from ~133 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Folie Fatale at ≈ 66k–108k copies, ≈ $109k–$293k 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 38 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 730.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Otome (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Otome, priced around $6. The breakout hits carry Choose Your Own Adventure + Thriller + Psychological Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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