How much revenue did Idle Colony make?

$24k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Colony sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Colony sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 578 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $24k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before Steam's cut; from 578 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 Idle Colony and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Colony's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–34k

best case 47k (Microcivilization)

Games like Idle Colony

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–34k copies

≈ $12k–$87k after Steam's cut

from ~263 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: Microcivilization at ≈ 36k–59k copies, ≈ $178k–$480k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 99 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 1k.

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

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 + Base-Building, priced around $18.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2020 to 2026, 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 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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