How much revenue did Pinball Lockdown make?

$776–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pinball Lockdown sell?

Q: How many copies did Pinball Lockdown 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; $776–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 19 reviews (Mixed)

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 Pinball Lockdown and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pinball Lockdown's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 339k–831k

best case 1.2M (Mountain)

Games like Pinball Lockdown

A typical game among these

≈ 339k–831k copies

≈ $408k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Mountain at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies, ≈ $248k–$668k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 156 reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle-Platformer (5 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + God Game, priced around $1.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Mountain 2014	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $248k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$0.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SimulationIndie
Yoku's Island Express 2018	Est. copies ≈ 162k–264k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $892k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PinballMetroidvania
Defy Gravity Extended 2016	Est. copies ≈ 355k–576k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $194k–$522k after Steam's cut $353k–$803k before Steam's cut	$1.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerPlatformer
Grove flowers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 230–374 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $379–$1k after Steam's cut $689–$2k before Steam's cut	$5.99	8 reviews 8 user reviews	CasualIndie
Pinball Spire 2024	Est. copies ≈ 15k–24k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$252k before Steam's cut	$14.99	596 reviews Very Positive	PinballExploration
Zeke's Peak 2019	Est. copies ≈ 749–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$8k before Steam's cut	$8.99	26 reviews Positive	Precision PlatformerPuzzle-Platformer
RagDoll MadDoll 2020	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $69–$184 after Steam's cut $125–$283 before Steam's cut	$4.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	ActionAdventure
Roxy Raccoon 2: Topsy-Turvy 2023	Est. copies ≈ 397–645 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut	$9.99	16 reviews Positive	PhysicsSandbox