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How many copies did Idle magic herb sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 918–1k
$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut
from 37 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 740–38k
best case 279k (Tiny Pasture)
Games like Idle magic herb

The middle of these games

≈ 740–38k copies

≈ $412–$488k after Steam's cut

from ~43 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tiny Pasture at ≈ 213k–346k copies, ≈ $350k–$942k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 4k reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Card Game (6 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Idler + Farming Sim, priced around $6.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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