How many copies has Idol Manager sold?

indielist estimates Idol Manager has sold between 169,245 and 394,905 units (median 282,075), derived from its 3,761 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Idol Manager?

Idol Manager was developed by Glitch Pitch and published by PLAYISM.

Who published Idol Manager?

Idol Manager was published by PLAYISM, developed by Glitch Pitch. See PLAYISM's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Idol Manager released?

Idol Manager was released in 2021.

How many reviews does Idol Manager have on Steam?

Idol Manager has 3,761 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.

Is Idol Manager worth playing?

Steam players rate Idol Manager 88% positive across 3,761 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Idol Manager

Jul 26, 2021 Indie $19.99

Developer Glitch Pitch Publisher PLAYISM

Profile updated Jul 2026

Management-focused indie game about running an idol operation, developed by glitch-pitch and published by PLAYISM. Released in 2021, Idol Manager has 4,081 Steam reviews with 88% positive sentiment and an initial price of $19.99.

Idol Manager is a 2021 Indie game developed by Glitch Pitch and published by PLAYISM. On Steam it has gathered 3,761 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Glitch Pitch with publisher PLAYISM is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 169,000 to 395,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Idol Manager can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

3,761

Positive

88%

Steam appid

821880

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

169K to 395K

units (median: 282K)

≈ $1.9M to $4.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

169K median 395K

+ How is this calculated?

3,761 reviews × NB(75) = 282,075 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$20	0
positive_88%	+10
final NB	75

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Idol Manager at roughly 169,000 to 395,000 copies, with a median around 282,000, derived from its 3,761 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

9 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $19.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-07-24.

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Platforms

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Genres

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Idol Manager sold?: indielist estimates Idol Manager has sold between 169,245 and 394,905 units (median 282,075), derived from its 3,761 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Idol Manager?: Idol Manager was developed by Glitch Pitch and published by PLAYISM.
Who published Idol Manager?: Idol Manager was published by PLAYISM, developed by Glitch Pitch. See PLAYISM's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Idol Manager released?: Idol Manager was released in 2021.
How many reviews does Idol Manager have on Steam?: Idol Manager has 3,761 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
Is Idol Manager worth playing?: Steam players rate Idol Manager 88% positive across 3,761 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Idol Manager can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Glitch Pitch's other releases and PLAYISM's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Idol Manager sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Idol Manager page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.