How much revenue did Factory Town Idle make?

$43k–$115k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Factory Town Idle sell?

Q: How many copies did Factory Town Idle sell?

31k to 51k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–51k; $43k–$115k after Steam's cut $78k–$178k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Factory Town Idle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Factory Town Idle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 319k–474k

best case 529k (Melvor Idle)

Games like Factory Town Idle

A typical game among these

≈ 319k–474k copies

≈ $418k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Melvor Idle at ≈ 403k–656k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut.

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 332 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (5 of 8) and Management (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Mining, priced around $10.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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