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Action indie game Dreamfall Chapters launched in 2017 from Red Thread Games, with the studio also listed as publisher. It has 4,521 Steam reviews at 82% positive, a mostly positive signal for players comparing story-driven indie releases at its $24.99 initial price.
Overview
Dreamfall Chapters is a 2017 Action game developed by Red Thread Games and published by Red Thread Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,205 player reviews, 82% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Red Thread Games with publisher Red Thread Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 163,000 to 381,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dreamfall Chapters can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,205
Positive
82%
Steam appid
237850
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0163K to 381K
units (median: 272K)
≈ $2.3M to $5.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$25 | +5 |
| positive_82% | 0 |
| final NB | 85 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dreamfall Chapters at roughly 163,000 to 381,000 copies, with a median around 272,000, derived from its 3,205 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.9M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
6 observed days · window low $6.25Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.25 to $6.25. The tracked-window low was $6.25 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dreamfall Chapters sold?
- indielist estimates Dreamfall Chapters has sold between 163,455 and 381,395 units (median 272,425), derived from its 3,205 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dreamfall Chapters?
- Dreamfall Chapters was developed by Red Thread Games and published by Red Thread Games.
- Who published Dreamfall Chapters?
- Dreamfall Chapters was published by Red Thread Games, developed by Red Thread Games. See Red Thread Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dreamfall Chapters released?
- Dreamfall Chapters was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Dreamfall Chapters have on Steam?
- Dreamfall Chapters has 3,205 Steam reviews, of which 82% are positive.
- Is Dreamfall Chapters worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dreamfall Chapters 82% positive across 3,205 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Dreamfall Chapters can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Red Thread Games's other releases and Red Thread Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dreamfall Chapters sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dreamfall Chapters page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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