How much revenue did Basketball Madness make?

$409–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Basketball Madness sell?

Q: How many copies did Basketball Madness sell?

298 to 484 copies, based on its 12 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298–484; $409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut; from 12 reviews (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 Basketball Madness out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Basketball Madness's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 485–4k

best case 25k (Blacktop Hoops)

Games like Basketball Madness

The middle of these games

≈ 485–4k copies

≈ $1k–$19k after Steam's cut

from ~42 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Blacktop Hoops at ≈ 19k–31k copies, ≈ $155k–$417k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 17 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 685.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (8 of 8) and VR (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Basketball, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 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
Blacktop Hoops 2024	Est. copies ≈ 19k–31k 18x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $155k–$417k after Steam's cut $282k–$641k before the cut	$29.99	758 reviews Very Positive	SportsBasketball
Pickup Basketball VR 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before the cut	$9.99	77 reviews Mostly Positive	SportsVR
VR SUPER SPORTS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut	$12.99	122 reviews Mixed	SportsAction
Nothin' But Net 2018	Est. copies ≈ 213–346 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $292–$786 after Steam's cut $531–$1k before the cut	$4.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	SportsVR
Hoops VR 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut	$5.99	66 reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationSports
JUST HOOPS 2021	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut	$9.99	17 reviews Positive	SportsVR
VTB Basketball League VR 2019	Est. copies ≈ 518–842 SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	18 reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationBasketball
Rezzil Player 2022	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 before the cut	$4.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	SimulationSports