How much revenue did Smashball make?

$14–$36 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Smashball sell?

Q: How many copies did Smashball 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; $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 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 Smashball out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smashball's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 686k–1.6M

best case 2.3M (NBA 2K20)

Games like Smashball

The middle of these games

≈ 686k–1.6M copies

from ~23k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: NBA 2K20 at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 41.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Basketball (8 of 8) and Sports (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Basketball + Sports.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
NBA 2K20 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Mixed	BasketballSports
Rezzil Player 2022	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $170–$459 after Steam's cut $309–$706 before the cut	$4.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	SimulationSports
NBA 2K16 2015	Est. copies ≈ 360k–585k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mixed	SportsBasketball
Soccertron 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut	$2.99	73 reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)
NBA 2K19 2018	Est. copies ≈ 686k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Mostly Negative	SportsBasketball
Stream Basketball 2023	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $442–$1k after Steam's cut $803–$2k before the cut	$4.99	13 reviews Positive	SportsUtilities
Nock 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before the cut	$19.99	57 reviews Very Positive	Arena ShooterSports
Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before the cut	$49.99	47 reviews Mostly Positive	SportsCasual