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How many copies did "Glow Ball" - The billiard puzzle game sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–11k
$6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$24k before the cut
from 142 reviews (Mostly Negative)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left "Glow Ball" - The billiard puzzle game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including "Glow Ball" - The billiard puzzle game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–16k
best case 645k (Zup! S)
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The middle of these games

≈ 9k–16k copies

≈ $23k–$33k after Steam's cut

from ~248 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Zup! S at ≈ 492k–799k copies, ≈ $269k–$723k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 112 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42 to 158.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Logic (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Exploration + Physics; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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