How much revenue did BALAN WONDERWORLD make?

$170k–$458k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BALAN WONDERWORLD sell?

Q: How many copies did BALAN WONDERWORLD sell?

16k to 25k copies, based on its 625 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–25k; $170k–$458k after Steam's cut $310k–$705k before the cut; from 625 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left BALAN WONDERWORLD out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BALAN WONDERWORLD's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 430k–642k

best case 38.7M (Portal 2)

Games like BALAN WONDERWORLD

The middle of these games

≈ 430k–642k copies

≈ $2.9M–$11.6M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–47.9M copies, ≈ $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Dark Humor + Funny + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 79 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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