How much revenue did The Impossible Game make?

$70k–$189k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Impossible Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Impossible Game sell?

86k to 139k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–139k; $70k–$189k after Steam's cut $128k–$291k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 The Impossible Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Impossible Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–22k

best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)

Games like The Impossible Game

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–22k copies

≈ $2k–$88k after Steam's cut

from ~89 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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M 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 22 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 257.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Level Editor (7 of 8) and Music (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Great Soundtrack + Precision Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 35.7M–58.0M 7164x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut $89.1M–$202.7M before the cut	$4.99	638k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Camera Obscura 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75k–122k 17x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before the cut	$1.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Pixel GraphicsPlatformer
Remnants of Naezith 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k 7.4x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $55k–$147k after Steam's cut $99k–$226k before the cut	$9.99	655 reviews Very Positive	Precision PlatformerIndie
Fermi's Path 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before the cut	$8.99	53 reviews Mixed	IndieArcade
Neodash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k 5.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before the cut	$15.99	519 reviews Very Positive	RacingAction
Square 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $601–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut	$0.99	89 reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Dancing Cube 2022	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut	$11.99	13 reviews Positive	RhythmMusic
BeatBeat 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $706–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$1.99	52 reviews Very Positive	Rhythm Platformer