How many copies did Idle Cave Miner sell?

31k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Idle Cave Miner make?

Idle Cave Miner is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Idle Cave Miner?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 31k–50k; 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 Idle Cave Miner and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Cave Miner's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 266k–324k

best case 608k (Mr.Mine)

Games like Idle Cave Miner

A typical game among these

≈ 266k–324k copies

≈ $415k–$699k after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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.

Best case: Mr.Mine at ≈ 463k–752k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 35 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Clicker.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Mr.Mine 2020	Est. copies ≈ 463k–752k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	19k reviews Very Positive	IdlerClicker
Digseum 2024	Est. copies ≈ 202k–329k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $166k–$448k after Steam's cut $303k–$689k before Steam's cut	$2.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualClicker
PickCrafter 2017	Est. copies ≈ 246k–400k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Very Positive	MiningIdler
(the) Gnorp Apologue 2023	Est. copies ≈ 247k–401k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $475k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $863k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$6.99	10k reviews Very Positive	ClickerIdler
Dwarf Shop 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut	$9.99	111 reviews Mostly Positive	DwarfSimulation
A Mining Game 2019	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	234 reviews Mixed	Free to PlayIndie
To The Core 2023	Est. copies ≈ 129k–210k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $283k–$762k after Steam's cut $515k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$7.99	5k reviews Very Positive	CasualClicker
Fidget Spinner RPG 2023	Est. copies ≈ 6k–9k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before Steam's cut	$3.99	233 reviews Very Positive	CasualRPG