How much revenue did Ball-it Hell make?

$11k–$30k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ball-it Hell sell?

Q: How many copies did Ball-it Hell sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 554 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $11k–$30k after Steam's cut $21k–$47k before Steam's cut; from 554 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Ball-it Hell and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Ball-it Hell's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 540k–2.8M

best case 8.7M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Ball-it Hell

A typical game among these

≈ 540k–2.8M copies

≈ $2.9M–$8.0M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 15k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (4 of 4) and Bullet Hell (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5.
When they shipped: 3 of the 4 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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