How much revenue did Countryballs: Modern Ballfare make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Countryballs: Modern Ballfare sell?

Q: How many copies did Countryballs: Modern Ballfare sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 276 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut; from 276 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Countryballs: Modern Ballfare out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Countryballs: Modern Ballfare's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 784k–1.3M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Countryballs: Modern Ballfare

The middle of these games

≈ 784k–1.3M copies

≈ $4.5M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~29k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Shooter (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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 ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 497 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Shooter (4 of 8) and Third-Person Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry FPS + PvP + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, and none of them 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 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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