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How many copies did Premium Bowling sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 14k–23k
$77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$319k before the cut
from 487 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 Premium Bowling out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Premium Bowling's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.4M
best case 12.7M (Assetto Corsa)
Games like Premium Bowling

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.4M copies

≈ $8.0M–$15.4M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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 Automobile Sim (4 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: Assetto Corsa at ≈ 9.7M–15.8M copies, ≈ $53.4M–$143.6M 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 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 55 to 26k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Automobile Sim (4 of 8) and Racing (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry VR + Realistic + Simulation; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 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 79 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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