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How many copies did Only a Billion?! sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 74–121
$81–$220 after Steam's cut $148–$338 before the cut
from 3 reviews (3 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 3 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 Only a Billion?! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Only a Billion?!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–115k
best case 1.1M (Touhou Mystia's Izakaya)
Games like Only a Billion?!

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–115k copies

≈ $58k–$177k 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: Touhou Mystia's Izakaya at ≈ 810k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 450 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 192 to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Clicker (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Time Management, priced around $6.
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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