How much revenue did Idle Colony make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Colony sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Colony sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 575 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$97k before the cut; from 575 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 Idle Colony out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Colony's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–34k

best case 47k (Microcivilization)

Games like Idle Colony

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–34k copies

≈ $12k–$86k after Steam's cut

from ~264 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: Microcivilization at ≈ 36k–58k copies, ≈ $178k–$478k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

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 + Base-Building, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2020 to 2026, 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 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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