How much revenue did Volley Pals make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Volley Pals sell?

Q: How many copies did Volley Pals sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 45 reviews (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 Volley Pals out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Volley Pals's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–439k

best case 2.4M (Street Fighter V)

Games like Volley Pals

The middle of these games

≈ 79k–439k copies

≈ $533k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Street Fighter V at ≈ 1.8M–3.0M copies, ≈ $10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 538 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 531 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Fighter (6 of 8) and Fighting (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + 2D Fighter, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 2 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 70 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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