How much revenue did xiuzhen idle make?

$98k–$263k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did xiuzhen idle sell?

Q: How many copies did xiuzhen idle sell?

59k to 96k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 59k–96k; $98k–$263k after Steam's cut $178k–$404k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 xiuzhen idle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including xiuzhen idle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–53k

best case 150k (Vanity Fair: The Pursuit)

Games like xiuzhen idle

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–53k copies

≈ $70k–$82k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Idler (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: Vanity Fair: The Pursuit at ≈ 114k–185k copies, ≈ $219k–$589k after Steam's cut. 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 179 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (4 of 8) and Word Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + RPG + Early Access; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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