How much revenue did Idol Manager make?

$560k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idol Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Idol Manager sell?

102k to 165k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 102k–165k; $560k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before the cut; from 4k 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 Idol Manager out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idol Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–21k

best case 103k (STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator)

Games like Idol Manager

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–21k copies

≈ $16k–$148k after Steam's cut

from ~527 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator at ≈ 78k–127k copies, ≈ $216k–$579k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 145 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 422.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Economy (6 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Economy, priced around $10.
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 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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