How much revenue did Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox sell?

Q: How many copies did Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 149 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$41k before Steam's cut; from 149 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 Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–210k

best case 916k (Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends)

Games like Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox

A typical game among these

≈ 98k–210k copies

≈ $251k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends at ≈ 698k–1.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Simulation.
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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