How many copies did Pinball Arcade sell?

264k to 429k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Pinball Arcade make?

Pinball Arcade is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Pinball Arcade?

Estimated owners: ≈ 264k–429k; from 4k 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 Pinball Arcade out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pinball Arcade's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–21k

best case 245k (Pinball FX Classic)

Games like Pinball Arcade

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–21k copies

≈ $62k–$129k after Steam's cut

from ~308 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: Pinball FX Classic at ≈ 187k–304k copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 209 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 102 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Pinball (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Pinball. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Action + Sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Pro Pinball Ultra 2016	Est. copies ≈ 14k–22k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $56k–$150k after Steam's cut $102k–$231k before the cut	$14.99	326 reviews Very Positive	SimulationPinball
Stern Pinball Arcade 2016	Est. copies ≈ 12k–20k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	289 reviews Mostly Negative	CasualSimulation
Star Wars™ Pinball VR 2021	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $34k–$90k after Steam's cut $61k–$139k before the cut	$24.99	197 reviews Mixed	SimulationPinball
Worms Pinball 2011	Est. copies ≈ 33k–53k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $72k–$194k after Steam's cut $131k–$299k before the cut	$7.99	520 reviews Mixed	PinballCasual
Pinball Wicked 2025	Est. copies ≈ 6k–10k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $13k–$35k after Steam's cut $23k–$53k before the cut	$7.99	237 reviews Very Positive	CasualIndie
Zaccaria Pinball 2025	Est. copies ≈ 57k–93k 7.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySimulation
Pinball FX Classic VR 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $70k–$188k after Steam's cut $127k–$289k before the cut	$14.99	408 reviews Very Positive	PinballVR
Pinball FX Classic 2017	Est. copies ≈ 187k–304k 18x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	PinballFree to Play