How much revenue did R.B.I. Baseball 21 make?

R.B.I. Baseball 21 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did R.B.I. Baseball 21 sell?

Q: How many copies did R.B.I. Baseball 21 sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 179 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; from 179 reviews (Mixed)

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 R.B.I. Baseball 21 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including R.B.I. Baseball 21's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–64k

best case 74k (Backyard Baseball '97)

Games like R.B.I. Baseball 21

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–64k copies

≈ $20k–$300k after Steam's cut

from ~660 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Backyard Baseball '97 at ≈ 57k–92k copies, ≈ $155k–$418k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 215 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 840.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Baseball (7 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Baseball, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 61 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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