How much revenue did Imagine Lifetimes make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Imagine Lifetimes sell?

Q: How many copies did Imagine Lifetimes sell?

3k to 6k copies, based on its 140 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–6k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$24k before Steam's cut; from 140 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 Imagine Lifetimes and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Imagine Lifetimes's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 209k–319k

best case 3.9M (AdVenture Capitalist)

Games like Imagine Lifetimes

A typical game among these

≈ 209k–319k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: AdVenture Capitalist at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 581 reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Automation (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler. The breakout hits carry Clicker + Idler + Capitalism; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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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