How much revenue did Kraken Smash: Volleyball make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kraken Smash: Volleyball sell?

Q: How many copies did Kraken Smash: Volleyball sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 48 reviews (Positive)

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 Kraken Smash: Volleyball out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kraken Smash: Volleyball's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42k–78k

best case 237k (Horizon Chase Turbo)

Games like Kraken Smash: Volleyball

The middle of these games

≈ 42k–78k copies

≈ $165k–$432k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Horizon Chase Turbo at ≈ 181k–293k copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 229 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 499.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Arcade.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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