How much revenue did Dear Esther: Landmark Edition make?

$712k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dear Esther: Landmark Edition sell?

Q: How many copies did Dear Esther: Landmark Edition sell?

259k to 421k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 259k–421k; $712k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$2.9M before the cut; from 8k 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 Dear Esther: Landmark Edition out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dear Esther: Landmark Edition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 201k–482k

best case 1.5M (Gone Home)

Games like Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

The middle of these games

≈ 201k–482k copies

≈ $1.7M–$5.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Gone Home at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 737 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Walking Simulator (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Walking Simulator + Short, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, and 1 of your 7 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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