How much revenue did FootballLife make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FootballLife sell?

Q: How many copies did FootballLife sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 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 FootballLife out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FootballLife's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–5.7M

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like FootballLife

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–5.7M copies

≈ $56.5M after Steam's cut

from ~120k 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: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Sports (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2018 2017	Est. copies ≈ 142k–231k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)
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NBA 2K20 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Mixed	BasketballSports
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	150k reviews Mixed	Football (Soccer)Sports
Offside 2022	Est. copies ≈ 298–484 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $327–$879 after Steam's cut $595–$1k before the cut	$3.99	12 reviews Mixed	Visual NovelLGBTQ+
FIFA 22 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Very Positive	Football (Soccer)Sports
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal 2023	Est. copies ≈ 5.6M–9.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut $55.7M–$126.7M before the cut	$19.99	225k reviews Mixed	ManagementSingleplayer