How many copies did Sadball sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Sadball make?

Sadball is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Sadball?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 918–1k; from 37 reviews (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 Sadball and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sadball's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–67k

best case 233k (Hot Lava)

Games like Sadball

A typical game among these

≈ 39k–67k copies

≈ $25k–$399k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hot Lava at ≈ 178k–289k copies, ≈ $977k–$2.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 288 reviews in their first month; the range was 48 to 815.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Exploration (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + 3D Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Racing + Time Attack + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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Hot Lava 2019	Est. copies ≈ 178k–289k 3.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $977k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	Precision Platformer3D Platformer
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