How much revenue did Ballionaire make?

$218k–$586k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ballionaire sell?

Q: How many copies did Ballionaire sell?

64k to 104k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 64k–104k; $218k–$586k after Steam's cut $396k–$902k before the cut; from 3k reviews (Very 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 Ballionaire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ballionaire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.5M–25.7M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Ballionaire

The middle of these games

≈ 8.5M–25.7M copies

≈ $62.9M–$96.7M after Steam's cut

from ~356k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (2 of 8) and Sandbox (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 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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