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How many copies did Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 40k–65k
$332k–$891k after Steam's cut $603k–$1.4M before the cut
from 2k 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 Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–11.3M
best case 46.9M (Geometry Dash)
Games like Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania

The middle of these games

≈ 2.4M–11.3M copies

≈ $18.6M–$64.7M after Steam's cut

from ~63k 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 Platformer (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: Geometry Dash at ≈ 35.7M–58.0M copies, ≈ $49.0M–$131.7M after Steam's cut.

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 749 to 144k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Platformer (4 of 8) and 2D Platformer (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Music + Level Editor, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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 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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