How much revenue did Go Mecha Ball make?

$63k–$169k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Go Mecha Ball sell?

Q: How many copies did Go Mecha Ball sell?

11k to 19k copies, based on its 460 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–19k; $63k–$169k after Steam's cut $114k–$259k before Steam's cut; from 460 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 Go Mecha Ball and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Go Mecha Ball's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 111k–181k

best case 618k (Beat Hazard)

Games like Go Mecha Ball

A typical game among these

≈ 111k–181k copies

≈ $441k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Beat Hazard at ≈ 471k–765k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Twin Stick Shooter (8 of 8) and Arcade (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rhythm + Music-Based Procedural Generation, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Space + Rhythm + Music-Based Procedural Generation; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 79 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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