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Adventure indie game Bad Dream: Coma launched in 2017 from desert-fox as both developer and publisher. It has 2,213 Steam reviews with 91% positive sentiment, and its $8.99 initial price positions it as a budget-friendly hidden gem for adventure players.
Overview
Bad Dream: Coma is a 2017 Adventure game developed by Desert Fox and published by Desert Fox. On Steam it has gathered 1,963 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $9. The pairing of developer Desert Fox with publisher Desert Fox is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 112,000 to 261,000 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, Bad Dream: Coma can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,963
Positive
91%
Steam appid
538070
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0112K to 261K
units (median: 186K)
≈ $575K to $1.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$9 | -5 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 95 |
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 Bad Dream: Coma at roughly 112,000 to 261,000 copies, with a median around 186,000, derived from its 1,963 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $958K 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 $2.25Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.25 to $8.99. The tracked-window low was $2.25 on 2026-07-22.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Bad Dream: Coma sold?
- indielist estimates Bad Dream: Coma has sold between 111,891 and 261,079 units (median 186,485), derived from its 1,963 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Bad Dream: Coma?
- Bad Dream: Coma was developed by Desert Fox and published by Desert Fox.
- Who published Bad Dream: Coma?
- Bad Dream: Coma was published by Desert Fox, developed by Desert Fox. See Desert Fox's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Bad Dream: Coma released?
- Bad Dream: Coma was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Bad Dream: Coma have on Steam?
- Bad Dream: Coma has 1,963 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Bad Dream: Coma worth playing?
- Steam players rate Bad Dream: Coma 91% positive across 1,963 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 Bad Dream: Coma can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Desert Fox's other releases and Desert Fox's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Bad Dream: Coma 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 Bad Dream: Coma page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure 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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