How much revenue did iDigging make?

$18k–$47k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did iDigging sell?

Q: How many copies did iDigging sell?

21k to 35k copies, based on its 866 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–35k; $18k–$47k after Steam's cut $32k–$73k before Steam's cut; from 866 reviews (Mixed)

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 iDigging and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including iDigging's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.3M–85.0M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like iDigging

A typical game among these

≈ 12.3M–85.0M copies

≈ $86.2M–$369.3M after Steam's cut

from ~683k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Automobile Sim (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automobile Sim (3 of 8) and Driving (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2018, and none of them 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 that falls with release age, from about 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 80.0M–130.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.9M–$591.3M after Steam's cut $399.8M–$909.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
American Truck Simulator 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $45.0M–$120.9M after Steam's cut $81.7M–$186.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	197k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Automobile SimDriving
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.5M–15.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut $94.5M–$214.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	227k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
BeamNG.drive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.5M–33.4M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut $256.7M–$584.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	421k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationDriving
VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.3M–15.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	269k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 4.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.7M–97.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $328.0M–$881.9M after Steam's cut $596.4M–$1356.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	944k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation