How much revenue did Bowling Simulator make?

$83–$221 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bowling Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Bowling Simulator sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews 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 Bowling Simulator and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bowling Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.2M–13.4M

best case 37.2M (Rocket League®)

Games like Bowling Simulator

A typical game among these

≈ 9.2M–13.4M copies

≈ $117.6M–$174.3M after Steam's cut

from ~276k 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.

Best case: Rocket League® at ≈ 28.3M–46.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 30k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 144k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Racing (5 of 8) and Driving (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Football (Soccer) + Competitive.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, 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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