How much revenue did The Pinball Wizard make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Pinball Wizard sell?

Q: How many copies did The Pinball Wizard sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before Steam's cut; from 76 reviews (Mostly 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 The Pinball Wizard and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Pinball Wizard's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–5.1M

best case 33.8M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like The Pinball Wizard

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–5.1M copies

≈ $9.9M–$42.1M after Steam's cut

from ~76k 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: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.8M–41.9M copies, ≈ $106.2M–$285.5M 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 Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Replay Value + Great Soundtrack + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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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The Binding of Isaac 2011	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.6M before Steam's cut	$4.99	63k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeRogue-like
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