How much revenue did Samawa Idle make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Samawa Idle sell?

Q: How many copies did Samawa Idle sell?

15k to 25k copies, based on its 623 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–25k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before Steam's cut; from 623 reviews (Mixed)

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 Samawa Idle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Samawa Idle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–73k

best case 324k ((the) Gnorp Apologue)

Games like Samawa Idle

A typical game among these

≈ 25k–73k copies

≈ $41k–$238k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: (the) Gnorp Apologue at ≈ 247k–401k copies, ≈ $475k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 580 reviews in their first month; the range was 135 to 2k.

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 $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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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