How much revenue did The Invisible Hand make?

$61k–$165k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Invisible Hand sell?

Q: How many copies did The Invisible Hand sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 693 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $61k–$165k after Steam's cut $112k–$254k before the cut; from 693 reviews (Very 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 The Invisible Hand out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Invisible Hand's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 137k–1.3M

best case 2.7M (Supermarket Simulator)

Games like The Invisible Hand

The middle of these games

≈ 137k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.3M–$14.6M 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: Supermarket Simulator at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies, ≈ $11.5M–$30.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Economy (7 of 8) and Management (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 of your 8 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 38 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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