How much revenue did PegIdle make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PegIdle sell?

Q: How many copies did PegIdle sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 451 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before Steam's cut; from 451 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 PegIdle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PegIdle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13k–1.4M

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like PegIdle

A typical game among these

≈ 13k–1.4M copies

≈ $12k–$172k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.8M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 228 reviews in their first month; the range was 15 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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