How much revenue did Idle Hero make?

$270–$726 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Hero sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Hero sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $270–$726 after Steam's cut $491–$1k before the cut; from 40 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 Idle Hero out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Hero's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.5M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like Idle Hero

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–3.5M copies

≈ $5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~62k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 12k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Cookie Clicker 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$13.1M before the cut	$4.99	93k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ClickerIdler
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends 2021	Est. copies ≈ 693k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	28k reviews Very Positive	ClickerFree to Play
Clicker Heroes 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	62k reviews Very Positive	ClickerIdler
Idle Vikings Clicker 2022	Est. copies ≈ 719–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $196–$527 after Steam's cut $356–$810 before the cut	$0.99	29 reviews Mixed	IdlerClicker
Tap Heroes 2015	Est. copies ≈ 67k–109k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$228k before the cut	$2.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Tactical RPGClicker
Potato Vs Potato 2024	Est. copies ≈ 794–1k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	32 reviews Mostly Negative	Card BattlerTactical RPG
One Life Clicker 2023	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $231–$620 after Steam's cut $420–$954 before the cut	$1.99	17 reviews Mixed	ClickerIdler
Pixel Slayer 2023	Est. copies ≈ 471–766 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $128–$345 after Steam's cut $233–$531 before the cut	$0.99	19 reviews Mostly Negative	IdlerClicker