How much revenue did Things That Bounce and Explode make?

$599–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Things That Bounce and Explode sell?

Q: How many copies did Things That Bounce and Explode sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $599–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 22 reviews (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 Things That Bounce and Explode and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Things That Bounce and Explode's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22k–225k

best case 877k (Soulstone Survivors)

Games like Things That Bounce and Explode

A typical game among these

≈ 22k–225k copies

≈ $134k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Soulstone Survivors at ≈ 668k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 476 reviews in their first month; the range was 176 to 23k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (7 of 8) and Arcade (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 36 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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