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How many copies did Pig Eat Ball sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–4k
$10k–$28k after Steam's cut $19k–$43k before Steam's cut
from 82 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 Pig Eat Ball and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pig Eat Ball's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–50k
best case 102k (Ninja Stealth)
Games like Pig Eat Ball

A typical game among these

≈ 31k–50k copies

≈ $60k–$175k after Steam's cut

from ~847 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ninja Stealth at ≈ 78k–127k copies, ≈ $107k–$288k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 678 reviews in their first month; the range was 79 to 759.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Stealth + Ninja, priced around $5.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2011 to 2024, and 2 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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