How much revenue did R.B.I. Baseball 21 make?

R.B.I. Baseball 21 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did R.B.I. Baseball 21 sell?

Q: How many copies did R.B.I. Baseball 21 sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 179 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; from 179 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 R.B.I. Baseball 21 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including R.B.I. Baseball 21's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–64k

best case 75k (Backyard Baseball '97)

Games like R.B.I. Baseball 21

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–64k copies

≈ $20k–$301k after Steam's cut

from ~663 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.

Best case: Backyard Baseball '97 at ≈ 57k–92k copies, ≈ $156k–$420k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 215 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 838.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Baseball (7 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Baseball, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 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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