How much revenue did Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball make?

Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball sell?

Q: How many copies did Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 108 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; from 108 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 Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–293k

best case 3.9M (Broforce)

Games like Sam & Max 103: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball

A typical game among these

≈ 123k–293k copies

≈ $793k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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 America (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: Broforce at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.3M–$33.0M 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 858 reviews in their first month; the range was 55 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share America (3 of 8) and Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with America + Co-op, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Local Co-Op + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 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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