How much revenue did DepowerBall make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DepowerBall sell?

Q: How many copies did DepowerBall sell?

471 to 766 copies, based on its 19 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 471–766; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 19 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 DepowerBall and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DepowerBall's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 610–2k

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like DepowerBall

A typical game among these

≈ 610–2k copies

≈ $799–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~42 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Party Game (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: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 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 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 64.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Party Game (4 of 8) and 4 Player Local (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Basketball + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 2 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
NBA 2K20 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 1455x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Mixed	BasketballSports
Canadian Robot Racing League 2024	Est. copies ≈ 347–564 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	14 reviews Positive	Party Game Platformer
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 1296x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty
FROG X BIRD 2017	Est. copies ≈ 241–391 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $530–$1k after Steam's cut $963–$2k before Steam's cut	$7.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	Party GameFamily Friendly
JoJo Siwa: Worldwide Party 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	85 reviews Mixed	CasualRunner
Miner Ultra Rag Smash 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $338–$907 after Steam's cut $614–$1k before Steam's cut	$0.99	50 reviews Mostly Positive	CasualSports
Supermoves: World of Parkour 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3k–5k 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	136 reviews Very Positive	ActionParkour
Quest Of Graal 2022	Est. copies ≈ 818–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut	$9.99	33 reviews Positive	MultiplayerParty Game