How much revenue did (the) Gnorp Apologue make?

$475k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did (the) Gnorp Apologue sell?

Q: How many copies did (the) Gnorp Apologue sell?

247k to 401k copies, based on its 10k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 247k–401k; $475k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $863k–$2.0M before Steam's cut; from 10k reviews (Very 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 (the) Gnorp Apologue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including (the) Gnorp Apologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 482k–3.2M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like (the) Gnorp Apologue

A typical game among these

≈ 482k–3.2M copies

≈ $1.9M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

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 114 to 12k.

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, priced around $5.
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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AdVenture Capitalist 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Very Positive	ClickerIdler
Clicker Heroes 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.9M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	62k reviews Very Positive	ClickerIdler
Nodebuster 2024	Est. copies ≈ 349k–567k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $287k–$771k after Steam's cut $522k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$2.99	14k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualClicker
Mr.Mine 2020	Est. copies ≈ 463k–752k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	19k reviews Very Positive	IdlerClicker
Cookie Clicker 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut $5.8M–$13.1M before Steam's cut	$4.99	93k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ClickerIdler
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends 2021	Est. copies ≈ 698k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	28k reviews Very Positive	ClickerFree to Play
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