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Casual pool indie game focused on billiards play from Cherry Pop Games. Released in 2013 and self-published by cherry-pop-games, it lists 2,209 Steam reviews with mixed sentiment and a $6.99 initial price.
Overview
Pool Nation is a 2013 Casual game developed by Cherry Pop Games and published by Cherry Pop Games. On Steam it has gathered 2,206 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $7. The pairing of developer Cherry Pop Games with publisher Cherry Pop Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 93,000 to 216,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Pool Nation can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,206
Positive
89%
Steam appid
254440
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.093K to 216K
units (median: 154K)
≈ $370K to $863K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$7 | -5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| genre_Casual | -15 |
| final NB | 70 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Pool Nation at roughly 93,000 to 216,000 copies, with a median around 154,000, derived from its 2,206 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $617K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
4 observed days · window low $2.09Across 4 observed UTC days from 2026-08-16 to 2026-09-06, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.09 to $6.99. The tracked-window low was $2.09 on 2026-08-16.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-06 06:33 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
windows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Pool Nation sold?
- indielist estimates Pool Nation has sold between 92,652 and 216,188 units (median 154,420), derived from its 2,206 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Pool Nation?
- Pool Nation was developed by Cherry Pop Games and published by Cherry Pop Games.
- Who published Pool Nation?
- Pool Nation was published by Cherry Pop Games, developed by Cherry Pop Games. See Cherry Pop Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Pool Nation released?
- Pool Nation was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Pool Nation have on Steam?
- Pool Nation has 2,206 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
- Is Pool Nation worth playing?
- Steam players rate Pool Nation 89% positive across 2,206 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Pool Nation can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Garry's Mod, Wallpaper Engine, Factorio, Balatro, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Cherry Pop Games's other releases and Cherry Pop Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Pool Nation sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Pool Nation page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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