How much revenue did Pummel Party make?

$7.3M–$19.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pummel Party sell?

Q: How many copies did Pummel Party sell?

1.8M to 2.9M copies, based on its 58k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–2.9M; $7.3M–$19.6M after Steam's cut $13.2M–$30.1M before Steam's cut; from 58k 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 Pummel Party and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Pummel Party's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–1.5M

best case 2.9M (Ultimate Chicken Horse)

Games like Pummel Party

A typical game among these

≈ 69k–1.5M copies

≈ $642k–$5.7M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 4), 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: Ultimate Chicken Horse at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (2 of 4) and Simulation (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. 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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PICO PARK 2021	Est. copies ≈ 744k–1.2M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.2M before Steam's cut	$4.99	30k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOnline Co-Op
Tools Up! 2019	Est. copies ≈ 32k–53k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $178k–$479k after Steam's cut $324k–$737k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	CasualIndie
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 3.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.8M after Steam's cut $16.8M–$38.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	54k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty
Moving Out 2020	Est. copies ≈ 59k–96k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $405k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $736k–$1.7M before Steam's cut	$24.99	2k reviews Very Positive	CasualIndie