How much revenue did 4D Golf make?

$110k–$295k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 4D Golf sell?

Q: How many copies did 4D Golf sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 805 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $110k–$295k after Steam's cut $200k–$454k before Steam's cut; from 805 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 4D Golf and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 4D Golf's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.2M

best case 2.5M (Golf With Your Friends)

Games like 4D Golf

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.2M copies

≈ $2.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut

from ~33k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Mini Golf (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Golf With Your Friends at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies, ≈ $25.9M–$69.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 26k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mini Golf (4 of 8) and Sports (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mini Golf + Sports, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Golf It! 2023	Est. copies ≈ 772k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$7.9M before Steam's cut	$8.99	31k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerMini Golf
Draw & Guess 2021	Est. copies ≈ 874k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before Steam's cut	$4.99	35k reviews Very Positive	PartyMultiplayer
Super Hexagon 2012	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$2.99	25k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DifficultGreat Soundtrack
Golf With Your Friends 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $25.9M–$69.5M after Steam's cut $47.0M–$107.0M before Steam's cut	$49.99	76k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerCasual
Escape from the Marble Monster 2023	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $191–$512 after Steam's cut $347–$788 before Steam's cut	$3.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	DifficultPhysics
Graviter 2021	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $382–$1k after Steam's cut $695–$2k before Steam's cut	$7.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	PhysicsPuzzle
Pocket Mini Golf 2024	Est. copies ≈ 347–564 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $476–$1k after Steam's cut $866–$2k before Steam's cut	$4.99	14 reviews Positive	CasualSports
Golf: Hole in One 2023	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $150–$401 after Steam's cut $272–$617 before Steam's cut	$1.99	11 reviews Positive	SportsGolf