How much revenue did Widget Inc. make?

$27k–$71k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Widget Inc. sell?

Q: How many copies did Widget Inc. sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 779 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $27k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$110k before Steam's cut; from 779 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 Widget Inc. and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Widget Inc.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–56k

best case 84k (Click Mage)

Games like Widget Inc.

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–56k copies

≈ $79k–$163k 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: Click Mage at ≈ 64k–104k copies, ≈ $88k–$237k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 550 reviews in their first month; the range was 127 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Clicker (7 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Clicker, 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 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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