How much revenue did Widget Inc. make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Widget Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Widget Inc. sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 769 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $48k–$108k before the cut; from 769 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 Widget Inc. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Widget Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–56k

best case 84k (Click Mage)

Games like Widget Inc.

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–56k copies

≈ $79k–$162k 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: Click Mage at ≈ 64k–104k copies, ≈ $88k–$236k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 550 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 127 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Clicker, priced around $5.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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