How much revenue did Cookie Clicker make?

$3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cookie Clicker sell?

Q: How many copies did Cookie Clicker sell?

2.3M to 3.8M copies, based on its 93k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.3M–3.8M; $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut; from 93k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

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 Cookie Clicker and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cookie Clicker's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 313k–611k

best case 4.0M (Clicker Heroes)

Games like Cookie Clicker

A typical game among these

≈ 313k–611k copies

≈ $529k–$876k after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Clicker Heroes at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 678 to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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