How much revenue did Desktop Bowling make?

$817–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desktop Bowling sell?

Q: How many copies did Desktop Bowling sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 15 reviews (Mixed)

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 Desktop Bowling and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desktop Bowling's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–500k

best case 573k (F1® 23)

Games like Desktop Bowling

A typical game among these

≈ 152k–500k copies

≈ $882k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: F1® 23 at ≈ 437k–710k copies.

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 117 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (7 of 8) and Racing (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Racing.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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