How much revenue did TheFoolish make?

$102–$275 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TheFoolish sell?

Q: How many copies did TheFoolish sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before the cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Thin evidence: 5 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 TheFoolish out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TheFoolish's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18k–24k

best case 323k ((the) Gnorp Apologue)

Games like TheFoolish

The middle of these games

≈ 18k–24k copies

≈ $33k–$53k after Steam's cut

from ~575 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: (the) Gnorp Apologue at ≈ 246k–400k copies, ≈ $474k–$1.3M 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 244 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 135 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Building + Cute + Economy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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Samawa Idle 2023	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before the cut	$4.99	617 reviews Mixed	ClickerIdler
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