How much revenue did To The Core make?

$283k–$762k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did To The Core sell?

Q: How many copies did To The Core sell?

129k to 210k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 129k–210k; $283k–$762k after Steam's cut $515k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 To The Core and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including To The Core's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 945k–3.2M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like To The Core

A typical game among these

≈ 945k–3.2M copies

≈ $4.2M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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 1k to 26k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (6 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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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IdleOn - The Incremental MMO 2025	Est. copies ≈ 741k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	30k reviews Mostly Positive	IdlerPixel Graphics
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