How much revenue did Incremental Factory make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Incremental Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Incremental Factory sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 247 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut; from 247 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 Incremental Factory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Incremental Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–62k

best case 482k (Rusty's Retirement)

Games like Incremental Factory

The middle of these games

≈ 48k–62k copies

≈ $114k–$235k 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Rusty's Retirement at ≈ 367k–597k copies, ≈ $706k–$1.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 882 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automation (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Idler, priced around $8.
The era: 7 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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