How much revenue did Ropuka's Idle Island make?

$118k–$316k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ropuka's Idle Island sell?

Q: How many copies did Ropuka's Idle Island sell?

107k to 174k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 107k–174k; $118k–$316k after Steam's cut $214k–$486k before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Ropuka's Idle Island and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ropuka's Idle Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 73k–408k

best case 586k (Shop Titans)

Games like Ropuka's Idle Island

A typical game among these

≈ 73k–408k copies

≈ $245k–$560k after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Shop Titans at ≈ 446k–725k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 569 reviews in their first month; the range was 172 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (5 of 8) and Cozy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Shop Keeper.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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