How much revenue did Idle Factory make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Factory sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 48 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 Factory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–696k

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like Idle Factory

The middle of these games

≈ 69k–696k copies

≈ $603k–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

All 8 of your 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 422 to 26k.

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 2017 to 2026, and 2 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 43 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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