How much revenue did I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling 2(K) make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling 2(K) sell?

Q: How many copies did I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling 2(K) sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 78 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 78 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling 2(K) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling 2(K)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 75k–450k

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling 2(K)

A typical game among these

≈ 75k–450k copies

≈ $142k–$586k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Collectathon (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 933 reviews in their first month; the range was 613 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Collectathon (4 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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NBA 2K19 2018	Est. copies ≈ 686k–1.1M 9.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Mostly Negative	SportsBasketball
NBA 2K20 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 25x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Mixed	BasketballSports
Siralim 3 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30k–49k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $124k–$333k after Steam's cut $225k–$512k before Steam's cut	$14.99	988 reviews Very Positive	Creature CollectorCollectathon
Siralim Ultimate 2021	Est. copies ≈ 63k–103k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $347k–$933k after Steam's cut $631k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	CollectathonCreature Collector
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Elin 2024	Est. copies ≈ 229k–372k 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.4M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessCharacter Customization
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