How much revenue did Pocket League Story make?

$12k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pocket League Story sell?

Q: How many copies did Pocket League Story sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 189 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $12k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before Steam's cut; from 189 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 Pocket League Story and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pocket League Story's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 807k–973k

best case 1.2M (Football Manager 2020)

Games like Pocket League Story

A typical game among these

≈ 807k–973k copies

from ~25k 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: Football Manager 2020 at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sports.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Football Manager 2023 2022	Est. copies ≈ 491k–798k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	20k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2024 2023	Est. copies ≈ 709k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
NBA 2K19 2018	Est. copies ≈ 686k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Mostly Negative	SportsBasketball
eFootball PES 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 752k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	26k reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Football Manager 2019 2018	Est. copies ≈ 379k–617k too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2021 2020	Est. copies ≈ 591k–961k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Football Manager 2017 2016	Est. copies ≈ 459k–746k too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)