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How many copies did BBB: Balls Bangs Blocks sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 25–40
$55–$146 after Steam's cut $100–$224 before Steam's cut
from 1 review (1 user reviews)
Only 1 review 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 BBB: Balls Bangs Blocks and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BBB: Balls Bangs Blocks's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 928–4k
best case 1.1M (Paint the Town Red)
Games like BBB: Balls Bangs Blocks

A typical game among these

≈ 928–4k copies

≈ $2k–$13k after Steam's cut

from ~40 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Arcade (4 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: Paint the Town Red at ≈ 810k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.5M–$12.0M 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 13 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 12k.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Arcade (4 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Gore + Blood, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Gore + Blood + Violent; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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Paint the Town Red
2021
Est. copies
≈ 810k–1.3M
816x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.4M before Steam's cut
$19.99
33k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
GoreBlood
Pixel Ripped 1978: An Atari Adventure
2023
Est. copies
≈ 2k
1.5x vs typical
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$10k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$43k before Steam's cut
$24.99
61 reviews
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VRVoxel
AVOID
2024
Est. copies
≈ 992–2k
SteamSpy 20k–50k
Est. revenue
$3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut
$9.99
40 reviews
Positive
RunnerDifficult
Crafting Dead
2017
Est. copies
≈ 6k–9k
4.0x vs typical
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$8k–$20k after Steam's cut $14k–$31k before Steam's cut
$4.99
160 reviews
Mixed
SurvivalZombies
Voxrush
2022
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Est. revenue
$387–$1k after Steam's cut $704–$2k before Steam's cut
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Dark Forest
2020
Est. copies
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SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$510–$1k after Steam's cut $928–$2k before Steam's cut
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Positive
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69 Ways to Kill a Zombie
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Est. copies
≈ 5k–8k
3.5x vs typical
SteamSpy 50k–100k
Est. revenue
$7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut
$4.99
140 reviews
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VRZombies
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Est. copies
≈ 942–2k
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$1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut
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Mostly Positive
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