How much revenue did IllusionCircle make?

$662–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did IllusionCircle sell?

Q: How many copies did IllusionCircle sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 98 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $662–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 98 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 IllusionCircle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including IllusionCircle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–3k

best case 40k (Malware)

Games like IllusionCircle

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–3k copies

≈ $3k–$8k after Steam's cut

from ~82 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Malware at ≈ 30k–49k copies, ≈ $25k–$67k 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 28 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 706.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (8 of 8) and Point & Click (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Point & Click, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Hidden Object + Casual + Flight; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 3 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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