How much revenue did PANZER BALL make?

$41k–$111k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PANZER BALL sell?

Q: How many copies did PANZER BALL sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–49k; $41k–$111k after Steam's cut $75k–$170k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 PANZER BALL and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PANZER BALL's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–5.1M

best case 12.4M (Human Fall Flat)

Games like PANZER BALL

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–5.1M copies

≈ $10.9M–$33.7M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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 First-Person (3 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: Human Fall Flat at ≈ 9.5M–15.4M copies, ≈ $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 8) and Gore (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2019, 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 36 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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My Friend Pedro 2019	Est. copies ≈ 821k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ActionIndie
Human Fall Flat 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.5M–15.4M 5.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $52.0M–$139.7M after Steam's cut $94.5M–$214.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	227k reviews Very Positive	Co-opFunny
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