How much revenue did First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator make?

$73k–$197k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 371 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $73k–$197k after Steam's cut $134k–$304k before the cut; from 371 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 First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–22k

best case 179k (Eleven Table Tennis)

Games like First Person Tennis - The Real Tennis Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–22k copies

≈ $21k–$180k after Steam's cut

from ~198 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.

Best case: Eleven Table Tennis at ≈ 136k–221k copies, ≈ $748k–$2.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 459.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (8 of 8) and VR (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sports + Simulation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
All-In-One Sports VR 2023	Est. copies ≈ 19k–31k 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $105k–$282k after Steam's cut $191k–$434k before the cut	$19.99	769 reviews Very Positive	VRSimulation
Racket: Nx 2018	Est. copies ≈ 16k–27k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $90k–$243k after Steam's cut $164k–$374k before the cut	$19.99	541 reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRSports
Blobby Tennis 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	63 reviews Mostly Positive	TennisSimulation
#SelfieTennis 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before the cut	$9.99	104 reviews Mostly Positive	TennisSports
Racket Fury: Table Tennis VR 2017	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $83k–$222k after Steam's cut $150k–$341k before the cut	$29.99	291 reviews Very Positive	CasualSports
VRNOID 2023	Est. copies ≈ 595–967 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut	$9.99	24 reviews Positive	ActionVR
Eleven Table Tennis 2016	Est. copies ≈ 136k–221k 17x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $748k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before the cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Racket Club 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $20k–$44k before the cut	$24.99	63 reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationSports