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How many copies did Bubbbles sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before the cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 6 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 Bubbbles out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bubbbles's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 521–554
best case 4k (Rainbow Reactor)
Games like Bubbbles

The middle of these games

≈ 521–554 copies

≈ $314–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~15 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rainbow Reactor at ≈ 3k–5k copies, ≈ $13k–$34k 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 5 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 12.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Match 3 (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Match 3, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Arcade + Music + Rhythm; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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