How much revenue did Bottom of the 9th make?

$562–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bottom of the 9th sell?

Q: How many copies did Bottom of the 9th sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 60 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $562–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 60 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 Bottom of the 9th and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bottom of the 9th's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–66k

best case 175k (Football, Tactics & Glory)

Games like Bottom of the 9th

A typical game among these

≈ 55k–66k copies

≈ $490k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Football, Tactics & Glory at ≈ 133k–217k copies, ≈ $916k–$2.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 413 reviews in their first month; the range was 20 to 838.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sports (7 of 8) and Baseball (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + Football (Soccer), priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Turn-Based Combat + Football (Soccer) + Economy; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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