How much revenue did Ropuka's Idle Island make?

$117k–$314k 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?

106k to 173k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 106k–173k; $117k–$314k after Steam's cut $212k–$483k before the cut; from 4k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Ropuka's Idle Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ropuka's Idle Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–407k

best case 585k (Shop Titans)

Games like Ropuka's Idle Island

The middle of these games

≈ 72k–407k copies

≈ $243k–$557k after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Shop Titans at ≈ 446k–724k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 570 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 173 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (5 of 8) and Cozy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Shop Keeper.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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