How much revenue did Pool Panic make?

$51k–$136k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pool Panic sell?

Q: How many copies did Pool Panic sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 405 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $51k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$210k before Steam's cut; from 405 reviews (Mostly 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 Pool Panic and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pool Panic's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–185k

best case 799k (Real Pool 3D - Poolians)

Games like Pool Panic

A typical game among these

≈ 7k–185k copies

≈ $5k–$288k after Steam's cut

from ~836 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: Real Pool 3D - Poolians at ≈ 609k–989k copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 151 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Pool (7 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pool + Sports.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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Dinoland 2021	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $34–$91 after Steam's cut $62–$140 before Steam's cut	$4.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	CasualSports
Legends of Snooker: One Shot 2021	Est. copies ≈ 694–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $189–$508 after Steam's cut $344–$782 before Steam's cut	$0.99	28 reviews Mostly Positive	SportsPuzzle
Pool Nation FX Lite 2015	Est. copies ≈ 127k–207k 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySports
POOOOL 2024	Est. copies ≈ 7k–11k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before Steam's cut	$4.99	277 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleCasual
Sports Bar VR 2016	Est. copies ≈ 35k–57k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $192k–$516k after Steam's cut $349k–$795k before Steam's cut	$19.99	840 reviews Very Positive	VRSports
Mind Spheres 2016	Est. copies ≈ 35k–56k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $47k–$128k after Steam's cut $86k–$196k before Steam's cut	$4.99	832 reviews Mostly Positive	PuzzlePhysics
Real Pool 3D - Poolians 2018	Est. copies ≈ 609k–989k 24x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	20k reviews Mostly Positive	PoolSports
Pool Nation 2013	Est. copies ≈ 181k–294k 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $348k–$936k after Steam's cut $633k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$6.99	3k reviews Very Positive	PoolSports