How much revenue did Idol Manager make?

$561k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Idol Manager sell?

Q: How many copies did Idol Manager sell?

102k to 166k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 102k–166k; $561k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Idol Manager and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Idol Manager's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–21k

best case 106k (STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator)

Games like Idol Manager

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–21k copies

≈ $16k–$149k after Steam's cut

from ~526 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator at ≈ 81k–132k copies, ≈ $222k–$598k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 145 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 422.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Economy (6 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Economy, priced around $10.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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