How much revenue did Only Ban! make?

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Only Ban! sell?

Q: How many copies did Only Ban! sell?

496 to 806 copies, based on its 20 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 496–806; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut; from 20 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 Only Ban! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Only Ban!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163k–470k

best case 2.1M (Chained Together)

Games like Only Ban!

A typical game among these

≈ 163k–470k copies

≈ $882k–$1.5M 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: Chained Together at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Platformer (8 of 8) and 3D Platformer (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $5.
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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