How much revenue did Countryballs: Modern Ballfare make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Countryballs: Modern Ballfare sell?

Q: How many copies did Countryballs: Modern Ballfare sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 277 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut; from 277 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 Countryballs: Modern Ballfare and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Countryballs: Modern Ballfare's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 789k–1.3M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Countryballs: Modern Ballfare

A typical game among these

≈ 789k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.5M–$9.5M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Shooter (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 496 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (4 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry FPS + PvP + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 43 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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Imperator: Rome 2019	Est. copies ≈ 773k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.5M–$22.8M after Steam's cut $15.5M–$35.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	27k reviews Mixed	StrategyGrand Strategy
Realm Royale Reforged 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	56k reviews Mostly Positive	Battle RoyaleFree to Play
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Sunset Overdrive 2018	Est. copies ≈ 441k–717k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	15k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 468k–760k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.4M–$21.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	19k reviews Mostly Positive	Character CustomizationSci-fi
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Holdfast: Nations At War 2020	Est. copies ≈ 734k–1.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.0M–$10.8M after Steam's cut $7.3M–$16.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	30k reviews Very Positive	ShooterFPS