How much revenue did Pandemic: The Board Game make?

Pandemic: The Board Game is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Pandemic: The Board Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Pandemic: The Board Game sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 686 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; from 686 reviews (Mixed)

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 Pandemic: The Board Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pandemic: The Board Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 925k–2.7M

best case 3.6M (Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer)

Games like Pandemic: The Board Game

A typical game among these

≈ 925k–2.7M copies

≈ $5.0M–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~42k 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: Business Tour - Board Game with Online Multiplayer at ≈ 2.8M–4.5M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Board Game (5 of 8) and Card Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Co-op.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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