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How many copies did Dreadnought sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 201k–327k
from 7k reviews (Mixed)

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 Dreadnought out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dreadnought's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–6.9M
best case 37.7M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)
Games like Dreadnought

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–6.9M copies

≈ $50.3M–$114.3M after Steam's cut

from ~85k 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: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.7M–46.7M copies, ≈ $315.9M–$849.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 251k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Sci-fi (7 of 8) and Shooter (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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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