How much revenue did From atom to modern make?

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

How many copies did From atom to modern sell?

Q: How many copies did From atom to modern 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; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 30 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 From atom to modern out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including From atom to modern's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–1.4M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like From atom to modern

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–1.4M copies

≈ $12k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

5 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 192 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 12k.

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 2022, and none of them 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).

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Cookie Clicker 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M 13x vs typical 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