How much revenue did Ballionaire make?

$226k–$608k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ballionaire sell?

Q: How many copies did Ballionaire sell?

67k to 108k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 67k–108k; $226k–$608k after Steam's cut $411k–$936k before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Very 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 Ballionaire and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ballionaire's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.6M–25.9M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Ballionaire

A typical game among these

≈ 8.6M–25.9M copies

≈ $63.5M–$97.8M after Steam's cut

from ~358k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (2 of 8) and Sandbox (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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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