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 694 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 Steam's cut; from 694 reviews (Very 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 The Invisible Hand and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Invisible Hand's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–1.3M

best case 2.7M (Supermarket Simulator)

Games like The Invisible Hand

A typical game among these

≈ 138k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.3M–$14.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Supermarket Simulator at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies, ≈ $11.5M–$30.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Economy (7 of 8) and Management (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2026, and 3 of the 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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King of Retail 2022	Est. copies ≈ 88k–143k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $631k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$25.99	4k reviews Very Positive	CasualSimulation
X4: Foundations 2018	Est. copies ≈ 920k–1.5M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.0M after Steam's cut $23.0M–$52.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSimulation
Mad Games Tycoon 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 195k–316k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	ManagementEconomy
Storage Hunter Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 104k–170k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $718k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Simulation Management
Rise of Industry 2019	Est. copies ≈ 121k–196k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $997k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	ManagementStrategy
TCG Card Shop Simulator 2026	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.0M 8.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.9M–$18.6M after Steam's cut $12.6M–$28.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	51k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Management
Supermarket Simulator 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.5M–$30.9M after Steam's cut $20.9M–$47.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	84k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Management
Dealer's Life 2 2022	Est. copies ≈ 105k–171k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $433k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $788k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	4k reviews Very Positive	TradingManagement