How much revenue did Groove Balls make?

$138–$368 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Groove Balls sell?

Q: How many copies did Groove Balls sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Groove Balls out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Groove Balls's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 305k–2.2M

best case 2.9M (Beat Saber)

Games like Groove Balls

The middle of these games

≈ 305k–2.2M copies

≈ $12.3M–$22.8M after Steam's cut

from ~35k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Beat Saber at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 49k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Rhythm (6 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Rhythm, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 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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Beat Saber 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.5M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut	$19.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRRhythm
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