How much revenue did Idle Cultivation make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idle Cultivation sell?

Q: How many copies did Idle Cultivation sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 145 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before Steam's cut; from 145 reviews (Mostly 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 Cultivation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idle Cultivation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16k–544k

best case 4.0M (Clicker Heroes)

Games like Idle Cultivation

A typical game among these

≈ 16k–544k copies

≈ $17k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Clicker Heroes at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 934 reviews in their first month; the range was 54 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (7 of 8) and Clicker (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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Shop Titans 2020	Est. copies ≈ 446k–725k 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Mostly Positive	IdlerShop Keeper
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