How much revenue did EvoLife make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did EvoLife sell?

Q: How many copies did EvoLife sell?

744 to 1k copies, based on its 30 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 744–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut; from 30 reviews (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 EvoLife out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including EvoLife's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 592k–1.2M

best case 3.9M (AdVenture Capitalist)

Games like EvoLife

The middle of these games

≈ 592k–1.2M copies

≈ $1.3M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Clicker (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: AdVenture Capitalist at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 744 to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (4 of 8) and Idler (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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 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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