How much revenue did Samawa Idle make?

$21k–$56k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Samawa Idle sell?

Q: How many copies did Samawa Idle sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 617 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before the cut; from 617 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 Samawa Idle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Samawa Idle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–73k

best case 323k ((the) Gnorp Apologue)

Games like Samawa Idle

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–73k copies

≈ $41k–$237k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: (the) Gnorp Apologue at ≈ 246k–400k copies, ≈ $474k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 580 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 135 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (6 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $7.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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