How much revenue did Spikair Volleyball make?

$42k–$114k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spikair Volleyball sell?

Q: How many copies did Spikair Volleyball sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 311 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $42k–$114k after Steam's cut $77k–$175k before Steam's cut; from 311 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 Spikair Volleyball and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spikair Volleyball's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–438k

best case 2.9M (Beat Saber)

Games like Spikair Volleyball

A typical game among these

≈ 58k–438k copies

≈ $234k–$17.4M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Beat Saber at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M 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 64 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Music (6 of 8) and Rhythm (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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