How much revenue did Cozy Island Idle make?

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

How many copies did Cozy Island Idle sell?

Q: How many copies did Cozy Island Idle sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 52 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 52 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 Cozy Island Idle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cozy Island Idle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 187–84k

best case 1.1M (Cat Goes Fishing)

Games like Cozy Island Idle

A typical game among these

≈ 187–84k copies

≈ $503–$312k after Steam's cut

from ~346 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: Cat Goes Fishing at ≈ 808k–1.3M copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 795.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (7 of 8) and Clicker (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Cats, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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