How much revenue did The Impossible Game make?

$70k–$189k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Impossible Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Impossible Game sell?

86k to 139k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–139k; $70k–$189k after Steam's cut $128k–$291k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 The Impossible Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Impossible Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–22k

best case 47.6M (Geometry Dash)

Games like The Impossible Game

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–22k copies

≈ $2k–$89k after Steam's cut

from ~94 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Geometry Dash at ≈ 36.2M–58.9M copies, ≈ $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 256.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Level Editor (7 of 8) and Music (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Difficult + Great Soundtrack + Precision Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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
Geometry Dash 2014	Est. copies ≈ 36.2M–58.9M 6884x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $49.7M–$133.7M after Steam's cut $90.4M–$205.7M before Steam's cut	$4.99	647k reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Camera Obscura 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75k–122k 16x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before Steam's cut	$1.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Pixel GraphicsPlatformer
Remnants of Naezith 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $55k–$148k after Steam's cut $100k–$227k before Steam's cut	$9.99	657 reviews Very Positive	Precision PlatformerIndie
Fermi's Path 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before Steam's cut	$8.99	53 reviews Mixed	IndieArcade
Neodash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before Steam's cut	$15.99	519 reviews Very Positive	RacingAction
Square 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $635–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$0.99	94 reviews Very Positive	DifficultMusic
Dancing Cube 2022	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut	$11.99	13 reviews Positive	RhythmMusic
BeatBeat 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $706–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$1.99	52 reviews Very Positive	Rhythm Platformer