How much revenue did PongBall make?

$68–$183 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PongBall sell?

Q: How many copies did PongBall sell?

124 to 202 copies, based on its 5 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 124–202; $68–$183 after Steam's cut $123–$281 before Steam's cut; from 5 reviews (5 user reviews); Only 5 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–103k

best case 267k (Lethal League Blaze)

Games like PongBall

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–103k copies

≈ $16k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~238 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Lethal League Blaze at ≈ 204k–331k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 63 reviews in their first month; the range was 21 to 209.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (8 of 8) and 2D Fighter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 2D Fighter + Sports, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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Action Arcade Wrestling 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5k–7k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $19k–$51k after Steam's cut $35k–$79k before Steam's cut	$14.99	160 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionArcade
Soccertron 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut	$2.99	73 reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Lethal League 2014	Est. copies ≈ 339k–552k 25x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$13.99	6k reviews Very Positive	FightingLocal Multiplayer
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Blocky Ball 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	91 reviews Very Positive	CasualSports
Thunder Ray 2023	Est. copies ≈ 8k–13k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $32k–$87k after Steam's cut $59k–$134k before Steam's cut	$14.99	316 reviews Mostly Positive	ActionCasual
Guts And Goals 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut	$14.99	48 reviews Positive	SportsAction
Lethal League Blaze 2018	Est. copies ≈ 204k–331k 28x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionIndie