How much revenue did Islands of Insight make?

$663k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Islands of Insight sell?

Q: How many copies did Islands of Insight sell?

80k to 131k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–131k; $663k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.7M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 Islands of Insight out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Islands of Insight's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 49k–223k

best case 799k (ANIMAL WELL)

Games like Islands of Insight

The middle of these games

≈ 49k–223k copies

≈ $341k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ANIMAL WELL at ≈ 608k–989k copies, ≈ $4.2M–$11.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 618 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 307 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Exploration, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 3 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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