How many copies did Clicker Heroes sell?

3.0M to 4.9M copies, based on its 62k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Clicker Heroes make?

Clicker Heroes is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Clicker Heroes?

Estimated owners: ≈ 3.0M–4.9M; from 62k 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 Clicker Heroes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Clicker Heroes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 797k–1.5M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like Clicker Heroes

The middle of these games

≈ 797k–1.5M copies

≈ $5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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.

Best case: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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