How much revenue did Idle Nine Heavens make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Nine Heavens sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Nine Heavens sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 94 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 94 reviews (Mostly 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 Nine Heavens and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Nine Heavens's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 562–22k

best case 31k (miniBONG)

Games like Idle Nine Heavens

A typical game among these

≈ 562–22k copies

≈ $6k–$45k after Steam's cut

from ~101 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: miniBONG at ≈ 24k–39k copies, ≈ $66k–$177k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 562 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Character Customization, priced around $10.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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