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How many copies did The Pinball Wizard sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut
from 74 reviews (Mostly 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 The Pinball Wizard out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Pinball Wizard's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–5.1M
best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)
Games like The Pinball Wizard

The middle of these games

≈ 2.3M–5.1M copies

≈ $9.9M–$41.8M after Steam's cut

from ~76k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Rogue-like (8 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Replay Value + Great Soundtrack + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, 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 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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