How much revenue did Cozy Island Idle make?

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

How many copies did Cozy Island Idle sell?

Q: How many copies did Cozy Island Idle sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 52 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 Cozy Island Idle out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cozy Island Idle's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–84k

best case 1.1M (Cat Goes Fishing)

Games like Cozy Island Idle

The middle of these games

≈ 163–84k copies

≈ $503–$308k after Steam's cut

from ~332 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: Cat Goes Fishing at ≈ 803k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 35 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 796.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Clicker (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Cats, priced around $7.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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