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How big is Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!?

Estimated owners
≈ 10k–17k
from 420 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 Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–6k
best case 104k (Leap Year)
Games like Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer!

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–6k copies

≈ $6k–$18k after Steam's cut

from ~127 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Leap Year at ≈ 79k–129k copies, ≈ $109k–$293k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 35 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10 to 399.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Platformer (8 of 8) and Precision Platformer (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Exploration + Precision Platformer, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Metroidvania + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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