How much revenue did Idle Business Tycoon - Build Simulator make?

$163–$438 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Business Tycoon - Build Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Business Tycoon - Build Simulator sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $163–$438 after Steam's cut $297–$674 before Steam's cut; from 12 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Idle Business Tycoon - Build Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Business Tycoon - Build Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 488–7k

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Idle Business Tycoon - Build Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 488–7k copies

≈ $753–$12k after Steam's cut

from ~48 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: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 106 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Idler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Moddable + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 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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