How much revenue did Idle ShowOff make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle ShowOff sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle ShowOff sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 75 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 75 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 ShowOff and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle ShowOff's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–46k

best case 78k (xiuzhen idle)

Games like Idle ShowOff

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–46k copies

≈ $42k–$90k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: xiuzhen idle at ≈ 59k–96k copies, ≈ $98k–$263k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 387 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (5 of 8) and Word Game (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Word Game, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 36 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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