How much revenue did Racket Pinball make?

$5k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Racket Pinball sell?

Q: How many copies did Racket Pinball sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut; from 40 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 Racket Pinball out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Racket Pinball's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–2.1M

best case 2.7M (Rec Room)

Games like Racket Pinball

The middle of these games

≈ 17k–2.1M copies

≈ $98k–$16.2M after Steam's cut

from ~21k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rec Room at ≈ 2.1M–3.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + First-Person.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 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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