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Dream Factory cover art

Dream Factory

The Tambourine · 2015-11-02

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 02, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Sitting in front of a screen or TV you might think that the process behind filming and producing a movie is a piece of cake. Try and play Dream Factory first. With this Filming Simulator you will ‘dive’ headfirst into the busy world of movie making. Our approach is to look at the industry in an ironic way.

Dream Factory is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy, and Early Access game released in 2015, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Very Negative review sentiment (18% of 87 reviews).

0
playing now
18%
positive of 87 reviews
Very Negative
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 150% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 49,684 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.2k–5.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 87 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Humble Store (2017-01-12) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
50Nov 2015Aug 2019Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2016 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2016 — avg 0 · peak 0Jun 2016 — avg 4 · peak 40Jul 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Aug 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Sep 2016 — avg 0 · peak 7Oct 2016 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2016 — avg 3 · peak 16Dec 2016 — avg 1 · peak 8Jan 2017 — avg 0 · peak 6Feb 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Apr 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3May 2017 — avg 5 · peak 701Jun 2017 — avg 3 · peak 386Jul 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Aug 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Sep 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2017 — avg 0 · peak 4Dec 2017 — avg 0 · peak 2Jan 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Feb 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jun 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2018 — avg 0 · peak 2Aug 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Oct 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Dec 2018 — avg 0 · peak 1Jan 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Feb 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2May 2019 — avg 0 · peak 2Jun 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1Aug 2019 — avg 0 · peak 1

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Aug 2019

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$14.99$0.592015-10-262019-07-092015-10-26 — best price $12.742015-11-09 — best price $14.992015-12-22 — best price $10.492016-02-12 — best price $14.992016-07-11 — best price $14.992016-09-21 — best price $0.742016-11-01 — best price $14.992016-11-23 — best price $1.492016-11-29 — best price $14.992016-12-13 — best price $0.742017-01-02 — best price $14.992017-01-26 — best price $14.992017-02-13 — best price $9.992017-02-25 — best price $14.992017-03-18 — best price $0.592017-04-01 — best price $0.592017-04-10 — best price $9.992017-04-30 — best price $14.992017-05-26 — best price $0.592017-06-25 — best price $0.592017-09-07 — best price $0.592017-10-02 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $0.992017-12-04 — best price $0.992017-12-28 — best price $0.592018-02-18 — best price $0.992018-04-02 — best price $9.992018-10-30 — best price $0.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $0.992019-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

IndieStrategySimulationEarly Access

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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