How much revenue did iDigging make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did iDigging sell?

Q: How many copies did iDigging sell?

20k to 33k copies, based on its 821 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–33k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before the cut; from 821 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.3M–84.7M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like iDigging

The middle of these games

≈ 12.3M–84.7M copies

≈ $85.6M–$367.5M after Steam's cut

from ~678k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Automobile Sim (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (3 of 8) and Driving (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2018, and none of them 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 that falls with release age, from about 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 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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Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $44.7M–$120.0M after Steam's cut $81.2M–$184.7M before the cut	$19.99	195k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.8M–$139.3M after Steam's cut $94.2M–$214.2M before the cut	$19.99	226k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.3M–33.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $139.6M–$375.3M after Steam's cut $253.8M–$577.4M before the cut	$24.99	416k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	268k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut $594.0M–$1351.4M before the cut	$19.99	940k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation