How much revenue did Idle Aquarium make?

$34–$91 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Aquarium sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Aquarium 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; $34–$91 after Steam's cut $61–$140 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 Idle Aquarium out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Aquarium's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 781–119k

best case 1.8M (WorldBox - God Simulator)

Games like Idle Aquarium

The middle of these games

≈ 781–119k copies

≈ $7k–$1.0M 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.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: WorldBox - God Simulator at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 543 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on God Game (8 of 8) and Life Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + God Game, priced around $20.
The era: Only 2 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 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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