How much revenue did Generic RPG Idle make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Generic RPG Idle sell?

Q: How many copies did Generic RPG Idle sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 32 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 Generic RPG Idle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Generic RPG Idle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–17k

best case 39k (Idle Cave Miner)

Games like Generic RPG Idle

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–17k copies

≈ $7k–$14k after Steam's cut

from ~189 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Idle Cave Miner at ≈ 30k–48k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 466.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Crafting (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Clicker.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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