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How many copies did Ralph and the Blue Ball sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$878–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut
from 130 reviews (Very 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 Ralph and the Blue Ball and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ralph and the Blue Ball's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 356k–873k
best case 1.6M (Sally Face - Episode One)
Games like Ralph and the Blue Ball

A typical game among these

≈ 356k–873k copies

≈ $1.8M–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Sally Face - Episode One at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 953 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Point & Click (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Psychological Horror, priced around $3.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 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 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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