How much revenue did Ballistic Mini Golf make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ballistic Mini Golf sell?

Q: How many copies did Ballistic Mini Golf sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 88 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before Steam's cut; from 88 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 Ballistic Mini Golf and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ballistic Mini Golf's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.1M–29.3M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Ballistic Mini Golf

A typical game among these

≈ 8.1M–29.3M copies

≈ $55.0M–$80.2M after Steam's cut

from ~340k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Survival (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (3 of 8) and Co-op (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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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